Wladyslaw Szpilman: The Pianist (2002)
ISBN: 9780753814055
Wladyslaw Szpilman: The Pianist (2002)
ISBN: 9780753814055
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On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin’s Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside—so loudly that he couldn’t hear his piano.
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ISBN
9780753814055
Author
Wladyslaw Szpilman
Pages
240
Binding
Soft cover
Publisher
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
Date of publication
2002
Format
Book
Language
English
It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw: That day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air.Though he lost his entire family, Szpilman survived in hiding. In the end, his life was saved by a German officer who heard him play the same Chopin Nocturne on a piano found among the rubble. Written immediately after the war and suppressed for decades, The Pianist is a stunning testament to human endurance and the redemptive power of fellow feeling.
