A Bach legend remembers her day of liberation, 70 years ago
mainThe great harpsichord player Zuzana Ruzickova turned 88 this week. She lives in Prague and continues to offer guidance to a new generation of performers.
Tomorrow, she celebrates the 70th anniversary of her liberation from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp – a hell worse than Auschwitz, as she descries it.
She is talking to Frank Vogl, who is making a film of her life. ‘The spirit of Bach was always with me and kept me alive,’ says Zuzana.
Read the interview here.
Fascinating to see the ragged Peters Edition she is holding and the way JS Bach’s name is printed on the cover.
There’s a lack of consistency over the years from this publishing house. Eg.J.S BACH but also simply BACH
It will all be pdfs and i pads within a decade.
Legend. Absolute legend. One hour with her is worth a year of life’s true lessons on how to be a person.