Christoph Eschenbach, the conductor who survived World War II thanks to a piano: “No more wars, please”

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Christoph Eschenbach, the conductor who survived World War II thanks to a piano: “No more wars, please”

Christoph Eschenbach (Breslavia/Wroclaw, 85) could have been a character in Pablo Larraín’s recent film about Maria Callas. The German conductor, who in 1977 was a successful pianist, rented an apartment in Paris and received the offer to review with the legendary Greek-American soprano the character of Leonora of Beethoven’s Fidelio. “We spoke on the phone and stayed to see us when he returned to Paris,” he recalls through video conference, “so…