I recently heard some pieces by Schumann for oboe and piano and was
surprised to find that the recording used a fortepiano.  A check of a few
websites and references, including a biography of Schumann I read years
ago, found nothing more precise than that the instrument was in common use
"until the early nineteenth century." Can anyone suggest a more accurate
time for the fortepiano's demise?

Richard Pennycuick
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