EAN: 9781408885512

Bilder-Quelle: shopping24.de – Sport

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A masterpiece' SCOTSMAN 'A wise refreshing novel and a touching human story ... Runcie has an expert imagination' HILARY MANTEL Love and Death. Grief and Joy. Music that lasts forever. Leipzig 1726. Eleven-year-old Stefan Silbermann a humble organ-maker's son has just lost his mother. Sent to Leipzig to train as a singer in the St Thomas Church choir he struggles to stay afloat in a school where the teachers are as casually cruel as the students. Stefan's talent draws the attention of the Cantor - Johann Sebastian Bach. Eccentric obsessive and kind he rescues Stefan from the miseries of school by bringing him into his home as an apprentice. Soon Stefan feels that this ferociously clever chaotic family is his own. But when tragedy strikes Stefan's period of sanctuary in their household comes to a close. Something is happening though. In the depths of his loss the Cantor is writing a new work: the Saint Matthew Passion to be performed for the first time on Good Friday. As Stefan watches the work rehearsed he realises he is witness to the creation of one of the most extraordinary pieces of music that has ever been written. 'Brilliant ... Readers will be enriched by this novel and its glimpse at genius' The Times Historical Fiction of the Month 'Warmly reverently Runcie brings alive what it is like to take part for the very first time in one of the most extraordinary pieces of music ever written' Daily Telegraph

Produktinformationen zuletzt aktualisiert am
03.04.2025 um 12:31 Uhr

Produktzustand:

Verfügbarkeit:

Versandkosten:

Sonderpreis: