Editing Historically informed performance (section)

===Fortepiano===
During the second half of the 18th century, the harpsichord was gradually replaced by the earliest pianos.  As the harpsichord went out of fashion, many were destroyed; indeed, the Paris Conservatory is notorious for having used harpsichords for firewood during the [[French Revolution]] and Napoleonic times.<ref>Alex Boekelheide, "[http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/10982.html Making Way for Beautiful Music] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171209/http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/10982.html |date=2016-03-03 }}", ''USC News'' (2 October 2005, accessed 20 January 2014).</ref> Although names were originally interchangeable, the term '[[fortepiano|fortepiano']] now indicates the earlier, smaller style of piano, with the more familiar 'pianoforte' used to describe the larger instruments approaching modern designs from around 1830. In the 20th and 21st centuries, the fortepiano has enjoyed a revival as a result of the trend for historically informed performance, with the works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert now often played on fortepiano.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Haskell|first1=Harry|title=The Early Music Revival: A History|date=1988|publisher=Courier Corporation|isbn=978-0-486-29162-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bGG22O24ObAC&q=Historically%20informed%20performance%20fortepiano&pg=PA190|access-date=6 March 2018|language=en|archive-date=7 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407160745/https://books.google.com/books?id=bGG22O24ObAC&q=Historically%20informed%20performance%20fortepiano&pg=PA190|url-status=live}}</ref> Increasingly, the early to mid 19th century pianos of [[Ignaz Pleyel|Pleyel]], [[Sébastien Érard|Érard]], [[Johann Baptist Streicher|Streicher]] and others are being used to recreate the soundscape of Romantic composers such as Chopin, Liszt and Brahms.

Many keyboard players who specialise in the harpsichord also specialise in the fortepiano and other period instruments. Although some keyboardist renowned for their fortepiano playing are [[Ronald Brautigam]], [[Steven Lubin]], [[Ingrid Haebler]], [[Robert Levin (musicologist)|Robert Levin]], [[Malcolm Bilson]] and [[Tobias Koch (pianist)|Tobias Koch]].