Lea Singer's "The Piano Student"

Lea Singer’s “The Piano Student” tells, in a convoluted way, the story of Vladimir Horowitz’s two-year affair with his first pupil, Nico Kaufmann.  Despite cries of foul from some of Horowitz’s more idolatrous and provincial admirers, there is considerable evidence the affair took place, and given that all the main characters are dead and left no descendants, there’s no real harm in revealing it.

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Kaufman (l) with Horowitz, c.1938

Horowitz in Gstaad, summer 1938.

Kaufmann in Gstaad, summer 1938.