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Over the the years, Bösendorfer has custom-built magnificent pianos for the Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III, and for the czar of Russia. Bösendorfers have been owned by such masters as Anton Rubinstein, Gustav Mahler, Ignace Paderewski and more recently by Béla Bartok and Frank Sinatra. After World War II, however, production fell from its peak in 1913 to around 100 pianos a year. For one thing, the factory, once a monastery, needed modernizing. For another, hauteur some times precluded sales; one director was said to have dismissed a customer...
...CHARLES III: A Different Story...
...WELLES III--Outrageous...
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Rockford, III...