The Cello Suites J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece

ISBN: 9780887848797 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0887848796 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource remote 1 online resource (329 p.)
Publisher: New York : House of Anansi Press, 2011.

Summary: 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.