The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Survival, Hope, and Music

A story about a piano and its most prodigious player—and how they both survived one of the darkest periods in history.


When her father died, singer-songwriter Roxanne de Bastion inherited a piano she knew had been in her family for over a hundred years. But it is only when she finds a cassette recording of her grandfather, Stephen, playing one of his compositions, that the true and almost unbelievable history of the piano, this man, and her family begins to unravel.

Stephen was a man who e...