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Christopher Stembridge

Musician and musicologist

Christopher Stembridge

Christopher Stembridge’s special field of interest is Italian keyboard music of the renaissance and early baroque.

He has given particular attention, since 1980, to historic keyboard instruments that have, or are known to have had, extra chromatic keys, split-keys.

On this website you will find a variety of articles and recordings, as well as details of editions and  CDs, and also links to other sites. 

Recent article: 

  • Almost Forty Years of Splitting Keys – How I arrived chez Descartes
     Published in Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Scripta 10 
    Click here to read.
     
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