The Piano Student - Couverture souple

Singer, Lea

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 193993186X ISBN 13 : 9781939931863

Editeur : New Vessel Press, 2020

Synopsis

The Piano Student centers on an affair between one of the 20th century's most celebrated pianists, Vladimir Horowitz, and his young male student, Nico Kaufmann, in the late 1930s. As Europe hurtles toward political catastrophe and Horowitz ascends to the pinnacle of artistic achievement, the great pianist must hide his illicit love from his wife Wanda, daughter of renowned conductor Arturo Toscanini.

The affair is narrated by Kaufmann in the 1980s to another music devotee who awakens memories of the thwarted relationship. Kaufmann is spending his final years playing in small-time Zurich bars, never rivaling his teachers mastery and rapturously received concerts.

Based on unpublished letters by Horowitz to Kaufmann that author Lea Singer discovered in Switzerland, the book portrays the anguish that the acclaimed musician felt about his never publicly acknowledged homosexuality and the attendant duplicity of his personal life. It's a riveting and sensitive novel about musical perfection, love, and longing denied, with multiple historical layers and insights into artistic creativity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lea Singer is a German cultural historian and a novelist who uses a pseudonym for her fictional works. Under her legal name of Eva Gesine Baur, she has authored biographies of Frédéric Chopin and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. She has also written novels inspired by the lives of pianist Paul Wittgenstein and painter Caspar David Friedrich.

Elisabeth Lauffer is the recipient of the 2014 Gutekunst Translation Prize. After graduating from Wesleyan University she lived in Berlin where she worked as a commercial translator and then obtained a master's in education from Harvard.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Vessel Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 193993186X
• ISBN 13: 9781939931863
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 230
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• Personne responsable: non disponible