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Zuzana Ruzickova in November 2016. With her hands badly damaged during the war, Ms. Ruzickova practiced 12 hours a day to catch up after it was over.
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Zuzana Ruzickova
Died on September 27, 2017 at age 90
Ms. Ruzickova survived Nazi concentration camps and a Communist dictatorship in the former Czechoslovakia to become one of the world’s most renowned harpsichordists and a leading interpreter of Bach.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.