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The Mozart Forgeries - Couverture souple

Leeson, Daniel

 
9780595316762: The Mozart Forgeries
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 059531676X ISBN 13 : 9780595316762
Editeur : iUniverse, 2004

Synopsis

Mozart's music, forged manuscripts, and a murder! Could any music aficionado who enjoys a unique, fascinating, and well-told tale ask for more?-Conductor George Cleve, Music Director, San Francisco's Midsummer Mozart Music Festival.The idea of creating a counterfeit of a genuine Mozart manuscript is outrageous, but to attempt the forging of two such compositions for the purpose of a technical/musical swindle is an order of magnitude more aggressive. Yet that is exactly what Forger, a counterfeiting genius, and Librarian, an eighteenth century document specialist, decide to do, their motivation being a $20,000,000 price tag. They are faced with incredible impediments not the least of which is the authentication of both documents by some of the world's leading Mozart scholars. From any perspective, the effort appears preposterous.Their choice of compositions are the lost manuscripts of Mozart's clarinet concerto and his quintet for clarinet and strings. Each stage of the effort is, by itself, an awesome undertaking, what with handwriting, paper, ink, watermarks, pens, and a great deal of imprecise history surrounding both works-the originals of which disappeared around 1800. Together, they combine to create a task so technically difficult that the probability of success is only slightly less than winning the Irish sweepstakes without buying a ticket.The author, one of America's leading Mozart authorities, is a prize-winning technical writer who also dabbles in fiction. His imaginative and skillful handling of the story's details walks the reader-sometimes not very gently-through each stage of the awesome effort. This entirely fictitious story is his contribution to the events of 2006, which are intended to commemorate the quarter millennium of Mozart's birth. www.leesonbooks.com.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Mozart's music, forged manuscripts, and a murder! Could any music aficionado who enjoys a unique, fascinating, and well-told tale ask for more?-Conductor George Cleve, Music Director, San Francisco's Midsummer Mozart Music Festival.The idea of creating a counterfeit of a genuine Mozart manuscript is outrageous, but to attempt the forging of two such compositions for the purpose of a technical/musical swindle is an order of magnitude more aggressive. Yet that is exactly what Forger, a counterfeiting genius, and Librarian, an eighteenth century document specialist, decide to do, their motivation being a $20,000,000 price tag. They are faced with incredible impediments not the least of which is the authentication of both documents by some of the world's leading Mozart scholars. From any perspective, the effort appears preposterous.Their choice of compositions are the lost manuscripts of Mozart's clarinet concerto and his quintet for clarinet and strings. Each stage of the effort is, by itself, an awesome undertaking, what with handwriting, paper, ink, watermarks, pens, and a great deal of imprecise history surrounding both works-the originals of which disappeared around 1800. Together, they combine to create a task so technically difficult that the probability of success is only slightly less than winning the Irish sweepstakes without buying a ticket.The author, one of America's leading Mozart authorities, is a prize-winning technical writer who also dabbles in fiction. His imaginative and skillful handling of the story's details walks the reader-sometimes not very gently-through each stage of the awesome effort. This entirely fictitious story is his contribution to the events of 2006, which are intended to commemorate the quarter millennium of Mozart's birth. www.leesonbooks.com.

Biographie de l'auteur

Daniel Leeson is a 30-year veteran of the IBM corporation, a professional performing musician for much of his life, an editor of the Neue Mozart Ausgabe?s 120 volumes of Mozart?s music, and, following retirement from his business career, a teacher of college-level mathematics. An officer of the Mozart Society of America, he is also an award-winning writer of nonfiction, the author of more than 100 technical articles, the co-author or co-editor of four books, and a published fiction writer.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
059531676X
ISBN 13 
9780595316762
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
332
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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