Thomas Mann’s piano will be restored with Beethoven’s opus 111

Thomas Mann’s piano will be restored with Beethoven’s opus 111

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norman lebrecht

August 13, 2021

The writer Thomas Mann’s personal piano has been bequeathed to the German state by his grandson.

After restoration, it will be ceremonially received in October into public ownership with a performance of Beethoven’s last sonata, a work of immense significance in Mann’s major work, Doctor Faustus.

 


Mann with friends Bruno Walter and Toscanini

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