Maria Theresia Paradis

The new album by pianist Ragna Schirmer tells the story about the blind composer Maria Theresia von Paradis. Louis Braille invented the tactile writing system for Maria Theresia in 1824/25. Ragna Schirmer plays on an original replica of a grand piano from the composers' time, built by the Greifenberger Institut. Maria Theresia's contemporaries Mozart and Haydn accompanying the repertoire list.