EDITION US NEWS POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT LIFESTYLE IMPACT VOICES VIDEO ALL SECTIONS THE BLOG 11/12/2015 02:11 pm ET | Updated Nov 11, 2016 Einstein’s Piano By Pia de Jong — Illustration by Eliane Gerrits This month marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Amid all the celebrations and conferences, it is easy to forget about the real human being who actually did it. But if you live in Princeton, and his piano is in your living room, he is always present. Everyone thinks of Einstein musically as a violinist. At six, he took lessons and proved to be a talented pupil. After he became famous, he willingly gave benefit concerts on the best stages in the world. He sometimes said that if he had not chosen scholarship, he would have become a musician. His love for music was nurtured from the cradle. His mother Pauline was a pianist and brought music into his family. On his violin he played solely the work of others — preferably Mozart, Bach, Corelli and Schubert. His musical mentors stopped somewhere in the mid-nineteenth century. But while playing the piano, he was daydreaming. There are many stories about Einstein, and who knows which are
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NEWS POLITICS ENTERTAINMENT LIFESTYLE IMPACT VOICES VIDEO ALL SECTIONS
T H E B LO G 11/12/2015 02:11 pm ET | Updated Nov 11, 2016
Einstein’s PianoBy Pia de Jong
— Illustration by Eliane Gerrits
This month marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Amid all the celebrations and
conferences, it is easy to forget about the real human being who actually did it. But if you live in Princeton, and his
piano is in your living room, he is always present.
Everyone thinks of Einstein musically as a violinist. At six, he took lessons and proved to be a talented pupil. After he
became famous, he willingly gave benefit concerts on the best stages in the world. He sometimes said that if he had
not chosen scholarship, he would have become a musician.
His love for music was nurtured from the cradle. His mother Pauline was a pianist and brought music into his family. On
his violin he played solely the work of others — preferably Mozart, Bach, Corelli and Schubert. His musical mentors
stopped somewhere in the mid-nineteenth century.
But while playing the piano, he was daydreaming. There are many stories about Einstein, and who knows which are
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