Another snap shows him as a two-year-old in a Spider-Man outfit that his mum made for him. But the true tale of his heritage ...

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a ...

Polanski fails to bring to the film of Szpilman's life the very element he leaves out of his own story: empathetic emotion. For most of its length, The Pianist is a dispassionate inventory of ...

Leif Ove Andsnes performed at Carnegie Hall Tuesday night. Photo: Stephanie Berger Representing one’s home country abroad is serious business, and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes took it seriously in his ...

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By Javier C. Hernández András Schiff, an eminent concert pianist who has boycotted strongman rule in Russia and his native Hungary, said on Wednesday that he would no longer perform in the ...

The priciest item on the list of Władysław Szpilman’s objects is a Steinway ... story served as the basis for the 2002 film “The Pianist.” Desa Unicum will start selling Władysław ...

And his lot sure is awful: as Jewish concert pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (on whose memoirs the film is based, and who died aged 88 in 2000), he escapes deportation to the camps but sees his family ...