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[This excerpt appeared in
Myra Hess: A Portrait
by Marian C. McKenna, London, Hamish Hamilton, 1976, page 169.
This web version is dated 23 November 2001,
revised 1 February 2003.]
by Marian C. McKenna
When the great Chopin player Vladimir de Pachmann
was presented with it
,
he bit the medal in public to make certain it was pure gold.