Confessions of Horowitz’s piano tuner

Confessions of Horowitz’s piano tuner

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norman lebrecht

August 17, 2015

From the bottomless archive of Bruce Duffie’s interviews, we offer as an August curio the memories of Franz Mohr, chief concert technician for Steinway, and personal tuner to Vladimir Horowitz. Apparently, he only ever attended one Horowitz recital. His nerves would not have survived many more.

Read the interview here.

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Comments

  • Ann Goldberg says:
    August 17, 2015 at 7:19 pm

    Fascinating! Thank you, Norman.

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