The war all but destroyed Andre Wasowski's nation, but it sent him on a concert tour which made him the most widely acclaimed young pianist in Europe. Last week Rome joined Vienna and Moscow in calling the gaunt, 25-year-old Polish pianist the greatest player of Chopin in modern times.
In 1939 Wasowski was known only in Lwow, where he took lessons from his piano-teaching mother and played solos with the Lwow Philharmonic Society. When the Russians entered Poland they heard his fiercely impassioned interpretations of Chopin, packed him off to play in Russia....
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