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Death of a pianist puppeteer

Death of a pianist puppeteer

The death has been communicated of the Iowa-born Austrian pianist Norman Shetler, a professor in Vienna who made his own puppets and toured his creations as a musical cabaret.

Early in his career he competed in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and toured as accompanist with Nathan Milstein and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

Norman was 93.

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