The Piano Player of Budapest
The Piano Player of Budapest
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Author: Roxanne de Bastion
Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups | Biography & True Stories | Biography: historical, political & military | True stories of heroism, endurance & survival | The Holocaust
Published on 6th June 2024 by Little, Brown Book Group (Robinson) in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 288 pages, One photo, integrated
240mm x 156mm | 0g
This is a story about a piano and its most prodigious player - how it, along with him, survived.
When her father died, singer songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a piano she knew had been in her family for over a hundred years. But it is only when she finds a cassette recording of her grandfather, Stephen, playing one of his compositions, the true and almost unbelievable history of the piano, this man and her family begins to unravel.
Stephen was a man who enjoyed great fame, a man who suffered the horrors of concentration camps in WWII, a man who ultimately survives - along with his piano. By piecing together his cassette recordings, unpublished memoirs, letters and documents, Roxanne sings out her grandfathers story of music and hope, lost and found, and explores the power of what can echo down through generations.
