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A ___MASK69___ is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard . It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed . A ___MASK15___ is an individual musician who plays the piano . Most forms of Western music can make use of the piano . Consequently , pianists have a wide variety of repertoire and styles to choose from , including traditionally classical music , Jazz , blues and all sorts of popular music , including rock music . Most pianists can , to a certain extent , play other keyboard - related instruments such as the synthesizer , harpsichord , celesta and the organ and keyboard . Perhaps the greatest ___MASK15___ of all time was Franz Liszt , whose piano mastery was described by Anton Rubinstein : " In comparison with Liszt , all other pianists are children ". Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein was a Russian ___MASK15___ , ___MASK18___ and conductor who became a pivotal figure in Russian culture when he founded the Saint Petersburg Conservatory . He was the elder brother of Nikolai Rubinstein who founded the Moscow Conservatory . Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western music , including both liturgical ( ___MASK19___ ) and secular music . While a more accurate term is also used to refer to the period from 1750 to 1820 ( the Classical period ), this article is about the broad span of time from roughly the 11th century to the present day , which includes the Classical period and various other periods . The central norms of this tradition became codified between 1550 and 1900 , which is known as the common - practice period . The major time divisions of Western art music are as follows : European art music is largely distinguished from many other non - European and some popular musical forms by its system of staff notation , in use since about the 16th century . Western staff notation is used by composers to indicate to the performer the pitches ( e . g ., melodies , basslines , chords ), tempo , meter and rhythms for a piece of music . This can leave less room for practices such as improvisation and " ad libitum " ornamentation , which are frequently heard in non - European art music and in popular - music styles such as jazz and blues . Another difference is that whereas most popular styles adopt the song ( strophic ) form , classical music has been noted for its development of highly sophisticated forms of instrumental music such as the concerto , symphony , sonata , and mixed vocal and instrumental styles such as ___MASK54___ which , since they are written down , can sustain larger forms and attain a high level of complexity . Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll " in the United States in the 1950s , and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later , particularly in the ___MASK92___ and the United States . It has its roots in 1940s ' and 1950s ' rock and roll , itself heavily influenced by blues , rhythm and blues and country music . Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk , and incorporated influences from jazz , classical and other musical sources . The piano is an acoustic , stringed musical instrument , in which the strings are struck by hammers . It is played using a keyboard , which is a row of keys ( small levers ) that the ___MASK66___ presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings . Invented in about 1700 ( the exact year is uncertain ), the piano is widely employed in classical , jazz , traditional and popular music for solo and ensemble performances , accompaniment , and for composing , songwriting and rehearsals . Although the piano is very heavy and thus not portable and is expensive ( in comparison with other widely used accompaniment instruments , such as the acoustic guitar ), its musical versatility ( i . e ., its wide pitch range , ability to play chords with up to 10 notes , louder or softer notes and two or more independent musical lines at the same time ), the large number of musicians and amateurs trained in playing it , and its wide availability in performance venues , schools and rehearsal spaces have made it one of the Western world ' s most familiar musical instruments . Daniel Gortler (   ) is an Israeli ___MASK15___ and a faculty member of the Buchmann - Mehta School of Music at Tel - Aviv University . Franz Liszt ( born Franz Joseph Liszt ) ( in modern usage " Liszt Ferenc ", ; October 22 , 1811July 31 , 1886 ) was a prolific 19th - century Hungarian ___MASK18___ , virtuoso pianist , conductor , music teacher , arranger , organist , philanthropist , author , nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary .