Clavier

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Clavier can refer to:

• Clavier, Liège, a municipality in Liège, Belgium
• Christian Clavier, French actor
• Any keyboard instrument; especially baroque-era instruments such as
  • the harpsichord
  • the clavichord or
  • the fortepiano^[1]
• Clavier, the French word for keyboard (either musical or typographical)
• Klavier, the German word used specifically to refer to any sort of piano except grand pianos, but not other keyboard instruments.
• Klavier, ballet made on New York City Ballet by Christopher Wheeldon to Ludwig van Beethoven's Hammerklavier Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, Op. 106

Interior with a Girl at the Clavier, painting by Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1901

• Klavier Music Productions, a North American classical recording company
• Klavier Gavin, a character from the Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney games.
• Klavier, a song by German industrial metal band Rammstein from Sehnsucht

See also

• Well-Tempered Clavier
• Clavichord

Notes

1. ↑ Source: online Britannica ()

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