![]() Elffers, now 72, turned his ideas into a book, “ The Secret Language of Birthdays.” Goldschneider had asked people he met for their sun sign and date of birth, assembling a database of personality traits he supposed were natally based. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he was also into astrology.įor years, Mr. He once played all 32 of Beethoven’s sonatas in one sitting for a crowd at a Philadelphia shopping mall, telling a reporter he was “spiritually guided” to give the concert. ![]() Goldschneider was a brilliant but scattered polymath who completed his studies at Yale medical school but never practiced medicine and later became a concert pianist. ![]() In the early 1990s, Joost Elffers, a successful Dutch book packager, met an American expatriate living in Amsterdam named Gary Goldschneider. ![]()
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