Montblanc Donation Series Sir Georg Solti Fountain Pen

He began his career as a concert pianist, but during the course of his illustrious career, the Hungarian musician Georg Solti would come to be regarded as the greatest conductor in the world, 2nd only to Herbert von Karajan. In 1938 he debuted as a conductor with Le Nozze di Figaro in Budapest. Over the decades Solti went on to conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, L'Orchestre de Paris, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. By the time of his death in 1997, Solti had a host of honorary doctorates, a knighthood (1972), 33 Grammies and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1996), and the notice of the world. Montblanc's tribute 2005 Donation Pen is a fountain pen based on piston filler 146 pens with platinum plated fittings inspired by the keyboard and the inside of a piano. The rhodium-plated 18k gold nib write notes, scores, and words with exquisite ease.