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Moór

Emanuel Moór (1863–1931) was a Hungarian composer, pianist, and inventor who settled in Switzerland and composed prolifically across virtually every genre, his late Romantic style attracting the dedicated championship of Pablo Casals. He is perhaps equally remembered for his invention of the Duplex Coupler Pianoforte: a double-keyboard instrument in which the upper manual sounds an octave higher than the lower, allowing octaves and complex passage-work to be played with a single hand. The instrument found admirers but never the wider adoption Moór had hoped for, and his music has shared something of the same fate.

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