Emánuel Moór

His best-known invention was the Emánuel Moór Pianoforte,[2] which consisted of two keyboards lying one above each other and allowed, by means of a tracking device, one hand to play a spread of two octaves.

[3] The double keyboard pianoforte was promoted extensively in concerts throughout Europe and the United States by Moór's second wife, the British pianist Winifred Christie.

The same year Emánuel Moór sparked a lively controversy in the world of music by presenting two revolutionary inventions in quick succession.

See pages 251, 252 on Marie Tutundjian/de Jarowslawska], but these trials, if they left a trace in music history were not repeated [Encyclopédie de la musique, 2e partie, vol.

On a scholarship from Winifred Christie Moór, Timothy Baxter, then a student (later a professor) at the Royal Academy of Music, in 1964 wrote Six bagatelles for double Keyboard.

Jeffery Harris held the Winifred Christie Moór Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music before Timothy Baxter.

They are published by Edition-S.dk and can be found on Timothy Baxter's CD from 2015 played by the pianists Anne Mette Stæhr and Ulrich Stærk.

Maurice Ravel said that the Emánuel Moór Pianoforte produced the sounds he had really intended in some of his own works, if only it had been possible to write them for two hands playing on a standard piano.