The pianist Grete Sultan (1906–2005), acclaimed interpreter of classical and new music, has to be regarded as one of the most extraordinary artists of the 20th century. Raised in a Jewish upper-class household in Berlin, she managed to leave the country in 1941 at the last minute after being banned from exercising her profession and increasing harassment. In New York, she became an established pianist and piano teacher. Here she met John Cage with whom she was bound by close friendship and artistic collaboration her whole life.
