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Kristian Bezuidenhout, Live at NPR

Fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout (bih-ZAY-den-hoat) joins Performance Today host Fred Child in NPR's Studio 4A. Bezuidenhout is a 24-year-old pianist from South Africa who plays both fortepiano and modern piano. When he's playing music from the period in which composers were writing for the fortepiano, he prefers to play it on that instrument. Bezuidenhout plays a sonata in E-minor by CPE Bach, and then the "Piano Sonata Op. 10, No. 3" by Beethoven. He performs on a fortepiano made by Thomas and Barbara Wolf in 1992.

Mozart's Character: Kristian Bezuidenhout

Fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout at the Savannah Music Festival 2011. Frank Stewart/courtesy of the Savannah Music Festival hide caption

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Classics in Concert

Mozart's Character: Kristian Bezuidenhout

Using a fortepiano — the kind of instrument Mozart himself would have played — this lively artist explores rarely heard elements of the composer's genius.

Mozart's Character: Kristian Bezuidenhout

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