Whether your students are learning about the
instruments of the orchestra or are studying the
Classical period, this is the place!
Here you will find an orchestra with instruments
from the time of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.
This is a Classical period orchestra and dates
from between 1750 and 1830 approximately.
In the following page, there is a picture of this area
of the Museu, can you recognise each member of
this orchestra?
Can you see the differences between these
early instruments and the instruments that are
used in our orchestras today?
At first sight most instruments are very similar,
but be careful and look closely at the wind
section. There are lots of differences: the
clarinet, the oboe, the bassoon or the natural
horn are not what we are used to seeing.
And what about the keyboard instrument, is it
a piano?