The Virtuoso

Author : Grace Burrowes
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402245718
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtuoso written by Grace Burrowes and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starred review for The Soldier: "Captivating. . .Burrowes' sensual love story is intelligent and tender." Publishers Weekly (starred review) A genius with a terrible loss. . . Gifted pianist Valentine Windham, youngest son of the Duke of Moreland, has little interest in his father's obsession to see his sons married, and instead pours passion into his music. But when Val loses his music, he flees to the country, alone and tormented by what has been robbed from him. A widow with a heartbreaking secret. . . Grieving Ellen Markham has hidden herself away, looking for safety in solitude. Her curious new neighbor offers a kindred lonely soul whose desperation is matched only by his desire, but Ellen's devastating secret could be the one thing that destroys them both. Together they'll find there's no rescue from the past, but sometimes losing everything can help you find what you need most. Praise for The Heir: "Sweet, sexy, tender romance between two characters so vibrant they seem to leap off the page." Meredith Duran, author of Wicked Becomes You "Burrowes' enchanting romance charms from the beginning!" RT Book Reviews, 4 starts "Refreshing. . .a luminous and graceful erotic Regency." Publishers Weekly

Author : Sonia Orchard
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 073228807X
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virtuoso written by Sonia Orchard and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2009 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Looking back, I realise I'd always been waiting for the arrival of Noel Mewton-Wood. His entrance occurred with such ease that I began to believe he'd always been there ... I remember being warmed by this sense of expectancy, a knowledge that one day my life would be wonderfully different." London, November 1945: at a bohemian party, a young music student meets the charismatic concert pianist Noel Mewton-Wood. The two immediately become lovers, and the affair unleashes an overwhelming passion as grand and sublime as the music they both love. But can the realities of life -- and love -- ever match the emotion that music inspires? Ten years on, the student, now a successful writer, reflects on the affair, the forces that shaped him and the one he adored and the romantic obsession that ruled and almost ruined his life. This assured, beautifully written debut novel is inspired by the real-life Australian pianist Noel Mewton-Wood. Sonia Orchard vividly evokes the artistic world of post-war London in a novel of striking illuminations about music and imagination that is also a compelling and deeply moving love story.

Author : Paul Metzner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520377400
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crescendo of the Virtuoso written by Paul Metzner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Age of Revolution, Paris came alive with wildly popular virtuoso performances. Whether the performers were musicians or chefs, chess players or detectives, these virtuosos transformed their technical skills into dramatic spectacles, presenting the marvelous and the outré for spellbound audiences. Who these characters were, how they attained their fame, and why Paris became the focal point of their activities is the subject of Paul Metzner's absorbing study. Covering the years 1775 to 1850, Metzner describes the careers of a handful of virtuosos: chess masters who played several games at once; a chef who sculpted hundreds of four-foot-tall architectural fantasies in sugar; the first police detective, whose memoirs inspired the invention of the detective story; a violinist who played whole pieces on a single string. He examines these virtuosos as a group in the context of the society that was then the capital of Western civilization. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1999.

Author : Yelena Moskovich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937512873
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtuoso written by Yelena Moskovich and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A hint of Lynch, a touch of Ferrante, the cruel absurdity of Antonin Artaud, the fierce candour of Anaïs Nin, the stylish languor of a Lana del Rey song." --The Guardian As Communism begins to crumble in Prague in the 1980s, Jana's unremarkable life becomes all at once remarkable when a precocious young girl named Zorka moves into the apartment building with her mother and sick father. With Zorka's signature two-finger salute and abrasive wit, she brings flair to the girls' days despite her mother's protestations to not "be weird." But after scorching her mother's prized fur coat and stealing from a nefarious teacher, Zorka suddenly disappears. Meanwhile in Paris, Aimée de Saint-Pé married young to an older woman, Dominique, an actress whose star has crested and is in decline. A quixotic journey of self-discovery, Virtuoso follows Zorka as she comes of age in Prague, Wisconsin, and then Boston, amidst a backdrop of clothing logos, MTV, computer coders, and other outcast youth. But it isn't till a Parisian conference hall brimming with orthopedic mattresses and therapeutic appendages when Jana first encounters Aimée, their fates steering them both to a cryptic bar on the Rue de Prague, and, perhaps, to Zorka. With a distinctive prose flair and spellbinding vision, Virtuoso is a story of love, loss, and self-discovery that heralds Yelena Moskovich as a brilliant and one-of-a-kind visionary.

Author : Zarko Cvejić
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443896829
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virtuoso as Subject written by Zarko Cvejić and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a novel interpretation of the sudden and steep decline of instrumental virtuosity in its critical reception between c. 1815 and c. 1850, documenting it with a large number of examples from Europe’s leading music periodicals at the time. The increasingly hostile critical reception of instrumental virtuosity during this period is interpreted from the perspective of contemporary aesthetics and philosophical conceptions of human subjectivity; the book’s main thesis is that virtuosity qua irreducibly bodily performance generated so much hostility because it was deemed incompatible with, and even threatening to, the new Romantic philosophical conception of music as a radically disembodied, abstract, autonomous art and, moreover, a symbol or model – if only a utopian one – of a similarly autonomous and free human subject, whose freedom and autonomy seemed increasingly untenable in the economic and political context of post-Napoleonic Europe. That is why music, newly reconceived as radically abstract and autonomous, plays such an important part in the philosophy of early German Romantics such as E. T. A. Hoffmann, Schelling, and Schopenhauer, with their growing misgivings about the very possibility of human freedom, and not so much in the preceding generation of thinkers, such as Kant and Hegel, who still believed in the (transcendentally) free subject of the Enlightenment. For the early German Romantics, music becomes a model of human freedom, if freedom could exist. By contrast, virtuosity, irredeemably moored in the perishable human body, ephemeral, and beholden to such base motives as making money and gaining fame, is not only incompatible with music thus conceived, but also threatens to expose it as an illusion, in other words, as irreducibly corporeal, and, by extension, the human subject it was meant to symbolise as likewise an illusion. Only with that in mind, may we begin to understand the hostility of some early to mid-19th-century critics to instrumental virtuosity, which sometimes reached truly bizarre proportions. In order to accomplish this, the book looks at contemporary aesthetics and philosophy, the contemporary reception of virtuosity in performance and composition, and the impact of 19th-century gender ideology on the reception of some leading virtuosi, male and female alike.

Author : Johann George Tromlitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521399777
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virtuoso Flute-Player written by Johann George Tromlitz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-10-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an English translation of Tutor for Playing the Flute (1791) by Johann George Tromlitz. The most explicit of the eighteenth-century tutors for flute-playing, it now serves as a record of instrumental practice as well as a useful guide to the performance of German classical music. The Tutor covers all aspects of flute playing, including intonation, articulation, flute maintenance, posture and breathing, dynamics, ornaments, musical style, cadenzas, and the construction of the flute. This edition will be an indispensable manual for players of baroque and modern flutes, and the information it contains will be invaluable for all musicians, students, and specialists interested in the historically informed performance of German classical music. The text is annotated with critical notes and all of the original music examples are newly printed in modern notation. The volume also contains a fingering chart and a historical introduction.

Author : Thomas Shadwell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803253681
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Virtuoso written by Thomas Shadwell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1676, The Virtuoso set a standard for theatrical satire. It was the most extensive dramatic treatment of modern science since Jonson's The Alchemist and took as its target no less than the Royal Society of London. Shadwell's barbs hit their targets often and cleanly. In 1689 he became Poet Laureate of England, a position he held until his death in 1692. The virtuoso of the title is Sir Nicholas Gimcrack, who like many after him confuses the extent of a collection with the depth of a science. Sir Gimcrack is fascinated by the geography of the moon, the worlds in his microscope, and the possibilities of human flight. More seriously and?for Shadwell's audience?more comically, his obsession with his arrays of worms and spiders proceeds at the expense of his wife and two beautiful nieces. The play also introduces Sir Formal Trifle, a pedantic ciceronian orator and coxcomb. His character established thereafter the theatrical type of the know-it-all blowhard. Famous for its wit and high-speed changes, The Virtuoso is also a display of the prestige of modern science and the pomposity of its ameteurs.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")" by Nathaniel Hawthorne references a number of historical and mythical figures, items, beasts, books, etc. as part of a museum collection. The narrator, and thus also the reader, is led through the collection by the virtuoso himself who turns out to be the Wandering Jew, an immortal man and the subject of numerous legends in his own right.

Author : Donald C. Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990623045
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtuoso written by Donald C. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andy Boynton
Publisher : FT PUBLISHING INTERNATIONAL
ISBN 13 : 9780273721833
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virtuoso Teams written by Andy Boynton and published by FT PUBLISHING INTERNATIONAL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Virtuoso Teams and allow yourself to get caught up in the spell-binding stones of seven teams that came together for relatively brief, but explosively intense periods of time and changed the worlds in which they worked forever.