The Cello Suites J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
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- ISBN: 9780887848797 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0887848796 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (329 p.) - Publisher: New York : House of Anansi Press, 2011.
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One autumn evening, shortly after ending a ten-year stint as a pop-music columnist for the Montreal Gazette, Eric Siblin attended a concert at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music. There, something unlikely happened: he fell in love with a piece of classical music -- Bach's cello suites. Part biography, part music history, and part literary mystery, The Cello Suites weaves together three dramatic stories: The first features Johann Sebastian Bach and the missing manuscript of his suites from the eighteenth century; the second is that of Pablo Casals and his incredible discovery of the manuscri.