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Mr Beethoven Paul Griffiths

SKU: BELL-48293562

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Publisher: New York Review Books

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 1.88 MB

Author: Paul Griffiths

Language: English

Year: 2021

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Mr Beethoven Paul Griffiths by Paul Griffiths instant download after payment.

Shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize and based on the German composer's own correspondence, this inventive, counterfactual work of historical fiction imagines Beethoven traveling to America to write an oratio based on the Book of Job.
It is a matter of historical record that in 1823 the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston (active to this day) sought to commission Beethoven to write an oratorio. The premise of Paul Griffith's ingenious and delightful novel is that Beethoven accepted the commission and traveled to the United States to oversee the first performance of the work. Griffiths grants the composer an additional lease on life of several, and starting with his voyage across the Atlantic and entry into Boston Harbor, chronicles his adventures and misadventures, his happy surprises and frustration, in a new world in which, great man though he is, he finds himself a new man. Relying, apart from the initial conceit of the novel, entirely on historically attested...