Julius Blüthner Pianofortefabrik GmbH is a piano-manufacturing company in Leipzig, Germany. Composers who used Blüthner include Brahms, Debussy, Wagner, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and the Bea
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The founder Julius Blüthner
Sergei Rachmaninoff with a Blüthner piano. Photo ca. 1905
"Let It Be" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 6 March 1970 as a single, and as the title track of their album Let It Be. It was written and sung by Paul McCartney, and credit
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…One Blüthner piano owned by the Abbey Road Studios in London was used on some tracks of The Beatles' Let It Be (1970) album, most notably, in the hits "Let It Be" and "The Long and Winding Road". Blüthners were also used in the films Gaslight (1944) and The Sting (1973), and one was played by Hannibal Lecter in…
Though widely interpreted to be an allusion to the Virgin Mary, McCartney has typically replied that listeners can interpret the song however they like.