The Bösendorfer grand piano The Great Wave off Kanagawa is our homage to a unique Japanese masterpiece. The image is as timeless – and intuitively relatable to – as music itself. It vividly illustrates the complex relationship between nature and humankind, and the immense importance of cross-cultural exchange. It is in the understanding of one another’s uniqueness, that we achieve both mutual inspiration and personal development, ultimately benefitting us all.
With the Tree of Life Grand Piano from our Collector’s Item Artist Series, we honor Gustav Klimt not only as one of the most important Austrian painters. With his interdisciplinary works and their ancient oriental, early Christian and East Asian influences, Klimt was already in his own lifetime an artist of world renown.
Now one of the most photographed buildings in Vienna, the word Secession contains not only the building itself but also an artistic association, a style of construction and design, as well as a philosophy upon which everything is based. Inspired by this zeitgeist, of unity in diversity, the design of the Bösendorfer Secession Grand was developed.
In the late 1970s during a concert in Vienna, Peterson turned to his impresario, Norman Granz, with the words: “Dammit, Norman, where does this box go? I also gotta have such a thing!” This was the beginning of great friendship. Peterson not only treasured his own personally selected Bösendorfer piano model 290 Imperial. He also performed at Bösendorfers 175th Anniversary Concert “A night in Vienna” at the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna.
