CREPUSCOLO DEL PIANOFORTE | 1951 | BENIAMINO DAL FABBRO

Beniamino Dal Fabbro’s Crepuscolo del pianoforte (1951) is a reflective work of music criticism and aesthetic meditation, exploring the decline of the piano as the central instrument of Western musical culture. Written in a literary and essayistic style, the book examines both historical trajectories and cultural transformations that led to the waning of the piano’s primacy, once emblematic of bourgeois salons and concert life. Dal Fabbro weaves together analysis of composers, performance practices, and social contexts, offering a critique that is as much cultural as it is musical. His perspective captures the tension between tradition and modernity, interpreting the “twilight” not only as loss but also as a redefinition of artistic values in the 20th century.