Nora (cat)

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title: "Nora (cat)" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["2004-animal-births", "2024-animal-deaths", "21st-century-pianists", "camden-county,-new-jersey", "individual-cats-in-the-united-states", "zoomusicology", "individual-cat-internet-celebrities"] description: "Cat known for playing piano" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_(cat)" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Cat known for playing piano ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox animal"]

Field	Value
name	Nora
othername	Nora the Piano Cat
image	NoraPianoCat.jpg
caption	Nora at the piano
species	Felis catus
gender	Female
birth_date
death_date
years_active	2007–2024
owner	Burnell Yow and Betsy Alexander
known	Playing the piano
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| name = Nora | othername = Nora the Piano Cat | image = NoraPianoCat.jpg | caption = Nora at the piano | species = Felis catus | breed = | gender = Female | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | years_active = 2007–2024 | owner = Burnell Yow and Betsy Alexander | known = Playing the piano Nora the Piano Cat (September 10, 2004 – February 5, 2024) was a gray tabby cat, rescued from the streets of Camden, New Jersey, by the Furrever Friends animal shelter. Nora gained international prominence after a YouTube video of her playing the piano went viral in 2007. The Times of London, in its online edition, characterized her music as being "something halfway between Philip Glass and free jazz".

The National Science Foundation has included Nora in a video about animal behavior which was shown in museums in the fall of 2007. Pianist Magazine, based in London, featured her in an article.

On February 5, 2024, Betsy Alexander, one of her owners, announced Nora's death on her Facebook page: "She passed peacefully at home on her favorite blanket and surrounded by us".

CATcerto

In 2009, recorded footage of Nora was included in CATcerto, a piece by Lithuanian composer Mindaugas Piečaitis. The first performance of the piece, by Piečaitis and the Klaipėda Chamber Orchestra, was widely broadcast on the Internet.

References

References

1. (11 September 2020). "Nora The Piano Cat - Turns 16 Years Old".
2. Whitwell, Tom. (March 3, 2007). "Microtrends: Piano-Playing Cats". [[The Times]].
3. Brown, John Robert. (Aug–Sep 2008). "Why I Love YouTube". NoraThePianoCat.com.
4. "Nora the Piano Cat".
5. (2009-06-20). "Kūrinys katei tapo rimtu gyvenimo pokštu".
6. (2009-09-09). "Nora wins fame for her piano-playing talent". [[Miami Herald]].

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