Steinway gets a new boss

Steinway gets a new boss

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norman lebrecht

February 14, 2017

Guido Zimmermann, 44, is the new MD of the Hamburg branch of the troubled piano manufacturer. He succeeds Werner Hussmann, who retires next month.

Comments

  • John Borstlap says:

    No wonder that they are ‘troubled’ when they build their instruments upside-down.

    • John Borstlap says:

      Incredible piece of vandalism.

      But John Cage would have loved it.

      • Pianofortissimo says:

        Of course he did it in “00:13:1½ for upside down piano, for any number of players doing anything but playing”. Composition year was 1993 but it was never performed.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Museart says:

    Is it really fair and serious “journalism” to connect the announcement that Guido Zimmermann, new MD for Steinway & Sons in Hamburg, who will replace the retired Werner Husmann, with a photo from a vandalism that happend in December 2015 at All Faiths Chapel on the K-State Manhattan campus??? No wonder that the “discussion” following is going into the wrong direction…

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