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2 unusual facts about The Piano Tuner


The Piano Tuner

The Piano Tuner was the basis for a 2004 opera of the same name (composed by Nigel Osborne to a libretto by Amanda Holden) and is also due to be released as a film in 2013, directed by Werner Herzog.

The protagonist, a middle-aged man by the name of Edgar Drake is commissioned by the British War Office to repair a rare Erard grand piano belonging to a Doctor Anthony Caroll.



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Jenny Q. Chai

In Germany, she studied with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and performed in Ensemble 20/21, directed by David Smeyers, as well as the group Musikfabrik.One of the pieces she selected for her final recital at Curtis, Henry Cowell’s Banshee, required her to play the piano solely on its strings, prompting at least one member of the audience to think she was the piano tuner.

Tim Liardet

His third collection, Competing with the Piano Tuner, was a Poetry Book Society special commendation and long-listed for the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 1998; his fourth, To the God of Rain, a Poetry Book Society recommendation for Spring 2003.