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Paul McNulty is a builder of fortepianos. The New Grove chararacterizes him as " famous for the high standard of () instruments." Within the community of builders, McNulty is noted for his efforts to extend the production of historically informed instruments later into history, for instance by constructing fortepianos modeled on the work of Conrad Graf. He has thus helped "provide an opportunity to extend keyboard performing practice to include the piano repertory of the 19th century" (New Grove).〔Quotations from the New Grove are taken from the online edition (http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com), article "Pianoforte", section 5, "The Viennese piano from 1800". This section written by Philip R. Belt, Maribel Meisel, and Gert Hecher.〕 ==Life== He was born in 1953 in Houston, Texas. In 1976 he attended the Peabody Conservatory, studying classical guitar, then became interested in historical instruments, studying lute performance, etc. In 1978 he entered the New England School of Stringed Keyboard Instrument Technology, where he studied under Bill Garlick. At his final examination McNulty gained the highest possible qualification: "tuning examiner". He attended a seminar at the Steinway factory in New York and was recruited to work there as restorer and technician, but chose instead to embark on a career as a fortepiano builder, and served his apprenticeship for two years under Robert Smith in Somerville, Massachusetts. McNulty's fortepiano was purchased by Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, where it still works flawlessly after twenty five years. Enchanted by the sound of this instrument, the Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda placed an order, as did Trevor Pinnock, ordering a fortepiano for a concert at Carnegie Hall. In 1986 John Gibbons invited McNulty to accompany his European tour with Frans Brüggen’s Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Gibbons performed Mozart’s concertos K.491 and K.466, and the highlight of the tour was McNulty’s fortepiano. At the same year McNulty moved to Amsterdam. In 1989 at Musica Antiqua Bruges, McNulty’s fortepianos made a great sensation with many piano orders following. The search for the best materials led McNulty to move to the Czech Republic. It was written in 1823 that Conrad Graf preferred to get his soundboards from the Schwarzenberg Forest (now Šumava) in southern Bohemia. Since 1995 McNulty has been living and working in Divišov, a small Czech town. In 2004 he married Russian-Canadian fortepianist Viviana Sofronitsky. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul McNulty (piano maker)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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