The story of one piano
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The story of one piano
14.99 €
In 1915, at the height of World War I, a woman from Magdeburg bought her brilliant pianist son the most beautiful piano on earth. The saddest piano on earth, because her son never played it.
A century passed. Ramon Gener, the author and the character, bought the most beautiful piano on earth from a magical keeper of pianos, who managed to warn that this instrument was special, and then disappeared without a trace. And a few years later, a secret was discovered inside the piano, which began a journey into the past for Gener, the author and the character.
Ramon Gener, a musician and music lover, a lecturer, educator, radio and television presenter known throughout Europe, has been talking about music all his life. “The Story of a Piano” is his first novel, which instantly became a bestseller, is translated into a dozen languages and has already earned the author the Ramon Llull Prize, the most prestigious Catalan literary award. “The Story of a Piano” is a tale of the history of the 20th century, a novel about people who are connected by an instrument that still stands in the author’s home. “Where reality did not reach, it was necessary to fill the gaps with fiction,” explains Genère, “but this fiction is also based on reality.” The history of the piano included two world wars, death and memory, guilt and redemption, disasters and beauty, but, of course, most of all, it was music. It is a story about the highest magic, based on true events. A story about how music gives us consolation, gives us courage and strength to live on, expands consciousness, erases borders and, even if it does not stop wars, at least for a moment creates a beautiful fragile peace.
A century passed. Ramon Gener, the author and the character, bought the most beautiful piano on earth from a magical keeper of pianos, who managed to warn that this instrument was special, and then disappeared without a trace. And a few years later, a secret was discovered inside the piano, which began a journey into the past for Gener, the author and the character.
Ramon Gener, a musician and music lover, a lecturer, educator, radio and television presenter known throughout Europe, has been talking about music all his life. “The Story of a Piano” is his first novel, which instantly became a bestseller, is translated into a dozen languages and has already earned the author the Ramon Llull Prize, the most prestigious Catalan literary award. “The Story of a Piano” is a tale of the history of the 20th century, a novel about people who are connected by an instrument that still stands in the author’s home. “Where reality did not reach, it was necessary to fill the gaps with fiction,” explains Genère, “but this fiction is also based on reality.” The history of the piano included two world wars, death and memory, guilt and redemption, disasters and beauty, but, of course, most of all, it was music. It is a story about the highest magic, based on true events. A story about how music gives us consolation, gives us courage and strength to live on, expands consciousness, erases borders and, even if it does not stop wars, at least for a moment creates a beautiful fragile peace.
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