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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. A beautiful story based on letters between Horowitz and his lover. The novel moves freely in time and can be confusing, but it is well worth the read. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. I received a copy of this book through LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program, and I am grateful to the publisher for the opportunity to read this.A compelling read based on real life letters between classical pianist Vladimir Horowitz and his student. Singer's frame story may confuse some readers or turn them off, but I found the beats between the content of the letters compelling and I think the ending pushed it from 3 stars to 4 for me; it just feels beautiful and a fascinating bringing together of art and politics, art and the personal, and the personal and the politics. It has that sort of old school melodramatic feeling of older gay fiction which I think can also be polarizing, but seems to work really well with the content of the letters. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. Thanks for the opportunity to read this book. Since the beginning of the book. It got me quite confused most of the time, but it was nice to read, so I can learn new words and their meaning. The story is nice to read because has a lof of history between Horowitz and Kaufman. I will absolutely recommend it Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. This novel is based on letters between Horowitz and his lover, Kaufman. The story is relayed many years later by Kaufman to a stranger he meets in a piano bar. I found the shifts in time from the story to the present difficult to follow and I was often confused. I also never figured out what role the stranger was meant to play. That aside, it was a poignant portrayal of the pain living a double life. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Carefully researched and explosively passionate, this story of forbidden love and unmet potential is ... for anyone who's ever felt the ineffable power of music." --Aja Gabel, author of The Ensemble 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 hides his illicit passion from his wife Wanda, the daughter of the renowned conductor Arturo Toscanini. The affair is narrated by Kaufmann in the 1980s to another music devotee, who comes to him enchanted by Schumann's composition Träumerei and awakens memories of the thwarted relationship. Kaufmann is spending his final years playing in small-time Zurich bars, never rivaling his teacher's musical mastery and rapturously received concerts. Based on unpublished letters by Horowitz to Kaufmann that author Lea Singer discovered in Switzerland, the novel 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 tale of musical perfection, love, and longing denied, with multiple historical layers and insights into artistic creativity. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Als Lea Singer unveröffentlichte Briefe von Vladimir Horowitz an einen jungen Schweizer entdeckt, kommt sie der Geschichte einer verborgenen Liebe auf die Spur: Nico Kaufmann war 1937 Horowitzʼ erster Klavierschüler, die Männer erlebten eine Amour fou, für die Horowitz seine Karriere und die Ehe mit Toscaninis Tochter Wanda riskierte. 50 Jahre später erzählt Nico Kaufmann, inzwischen Barpianist, einem Unbekannten von dieser Liebe und ihren dunklen Seiten. Er führt den Fremden zu den Luxushotels, in denen Horowitz mit ihm zwei Jahre lang seine Leidenschaft im Verborgenen lebte, und immer näher heran an die brennenden Fragen: Wie viel Mut fordert die Liebe? Und was geschieht mit dem, der seine Sehnsucht verleugnet?