“Then I ran to mum and demanded: ‘Mum, either the piano disappears from the house or I do! Decide!’ And... the piano disappeared. It was literature that I taught to Aennchen instead. In short: music disturbs! Goethe wasn’t thrilled about this either. No instruments in my house. Martha had insisted: ‘But the girls, the girls, they need to learn music!’ Rubbish, it’s better to read instead.”
