The Music Plays On — André Watts
2 min readJun 19, 2020
The extraordinary pianist, André Watts was born to an Hungarian mother and an African American U.S. Army soldier in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1946. The family moved back to the U.S. when André was eight years old and by the age of ten was performing with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Watts has been a part of the American musical fabric since the early sixties when, at the age of 16, he appeared on a nationally…
