Have you ever heard of Wladyslaw Szpilman? I can hardly say his name but he was an amazing pianist. Not only did he play the piano well but what he put into the pieces he played were crazy. The emotion he could convey in one piano piece could have your face like this ":O" afterwards.
All artists have their own way of putting there troubles or joys into music. To show others what they feel. And some musicians go to music when they have nothing left.
Szpilman was a Jew, who like many Jews in the 1940s and such got persecuted for their beliefs by the Germans. Szpilman and his family had to suffer through being taken from their homes, watch people being killed just for fun by some of the German soldiers, and even watch friends abandon them for fear of being known that they helped a Jew. But some how even through all his troubles and pains of hunger and death he always found a piano.
He was even saved by a German officer who spared his life after hearing him play on the piano. The German officer even hid him and fed him even though he could have been punished severely for helping.
Wladyslaw Szpilman, after the war had ended, went back to playing on the radio. It is incredible how he survived and still after everything bad could happen to him he still clung to music.
He inspires me. And if you want to know how he survived and what he went through you should really watch The Pianist. A fantastic movie that showed him for what an amazing pianist he is and how he still kept with it. Anyway. That's all I have to say about him and his awesomeness. :)
- The Clartist
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