EAN: 9781408896846

ONE HUNDRED MIRACLES - WENDY HOLDEN ZUZANA RUZI...

The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ruzicková  Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist.
'Extraordinary' Sunday Times 'Compelling' Daily Telegraph Zuzana Ruzicková grew up in 1930s
Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian Bach and the piano. But her peaceful 
melodic childhood was torn apart when  in 1939  the Nazis invaded. Uprooted from her home 
transported from Auschwitz to Hamburg to Bergen-Belsen  bereaved  starved  and afflicted with
crippling injuries to her musician's hands  the teenage Zuzana faced a series of devastating
losses. Yet with every truck and train ride  a small slip of paper printed with her favourite
piece of Bach's music became her talisman. Armed with this 'proof that beauty still existed' 
Zuzana's fierce bravery and passion ensured her survival of the greatest human atrocities of
all time  and would continue to sustain her through the brutalities of post-war Communist rule.
Harnessing her talent and dedication  and fortified by the love of her husband  the Czech
composer Viktor Kalabis  Zuzana went on to become one of the twentieth century's most renowned
musicians and the first harpsichordist to record the entirety of Bach's keyboard works.
Zuzana's story  told here in her own words before her death in 2017  is a profound and powerful
testimony of the horrors of the Holocaust  and a testament in itself to the importance of
amplifying the voices of its survivors today. It is also a joyful celebration of art and
resistance that defined the life of the 'first lady of the harpsichord'- a woman who spent her
life being ceaselessly reborn through her music.

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