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The late Kobe Bryant learned to play Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata

• By Norman Lebrecht
• on January 27, 2020

We have been sent a 2014 video of the basketball star, tragically killed with his daughter yesterday in a helicopter crash, playing piano in an arrangement of the Moonlight Sonata, which he apparently loved.

The producers say: We had a very narrow window of time to shoot this promotional piece with Kobe. He arrived in the conference room at the Graves 106 Hotel in MN at 6:45pm and 20 minutes later he was gone.

Kobe told reporters that he took piano lessons in order to play the Moonlight for his wife, Vanessa, whose favourite piece it was.

Eternal rest.

[laplata]

I didn’t know much about him, but from what I’ve seen, he must have been a good man.

[dangus]

Not a terribly difficult piece, but nicely played.

If he wasn’t a rapist, he might even earn some respect from me.

[Midwesterner53]

Lost in the discussion: The mother of three small children who was an assistant basketball coach leaves her husband to raise them and explain to them why mama is never coming home again; The husband college coach, wife and child who leave behind two orphans at home and two others on board as well. Every life is important to someone. God bless their families, I pray they can find relief and comfort somewhere.

[EinNYC]

That was nice. Thank you. RIP, Kobe.