The appearance of a professional musician in the Goldenweiser family was a source of great joy and pride for everyone. Therefore, the pianist’s uncle, Moses Solomonovich celebrated his nephew’s brilliant success at the conservatory by giving Alexander a large grand piano made by the German company Bechstein.

The history of the production of famous grand pianos began in 1853 in Berlin, when the twenty-year-old Carl Bechstein founded his workshop. Four years later, the first concert grand piano was created and became a sensation in the musical world. Franz Liszt’s student Hans von Bülow played his teacher’s sonata on this piano in Berlin and highly appreciated the quality of the instrument. In October 1860, Franz Liszt also purchased his first Bechstein grand piano. A few decades later, he wrote a letter to Carl Bechstein, in which he confessed: “For 28 years now I have been playing your instruments — and still prefer them.”

Alexander Goldenweiser was happy with such a generous gift from his uncle: for the first time he had a high-quality musical instrument with a wonderful sound. A few years later, as a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, Goldenweiser acquired the second Bechstein piano for home musical evenings and playing duets. The careful attitude of the musician to these instruments is evidenced by a letter written by Goldenweiser to his wife Anna Alekseyevna during the 1912 tour.

Now the two Bechstein pianos adorn the music hall of the memorial apartment of Alexander Goldenweiser.