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The weight of a piano 2019

By Chris Cander

  • Pianos, Family life, Fiction, FICTION / Family Life / General

In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, built at the turn of the century in Germany, on which she discovers everything that she herself can do with music and what music, in turn, does for her.

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Earnest, grave, spare and classical in form.

  • earnestironic
  • gravecomic
  • sparerichly built
  • classical in formformally daring
  • contemplativerelentless

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