This performance course offers pianists, string players and singers an opportunity to learn and perform solo piano, chamber music and lieder by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert using a late 18th-century fortepiano. We will do a deep dive into the meanings of Classical-era notation, the importance of mimicking bowings on the piano and the linguistic nature of phasing in repertoire from the first Viennese School. The transparency and quick decay of sound of the fortepiano makes it possible for singers to emphasize syllabic inflections and timings of German speech in their singing. For pianists playing with a singer or string player, this can be a good opportunity to become sensitive to string players' bowings and singers' breathing and pronunciation of text. There will be a class performance at the end of the semester.