Search results for ""Author Paul Griffiths""
Henningham Family Press let me go on
Ophelia uses the words Shakespeare gave her to choose her own fate. Following the inventive, moving novel let me tell you, "O" goes on to encounter others on a similar journey and explore her fabulous new world. Constrained by the 481 words Ophelia speaks in Hamlet, her story flows from this barely perceptible limitation. It hints at a past that is reluctant to let her go, and the undiscovered powers that govern the present. From the author of Mr. Beethoven (The Goldsmiths Prize 2020 shortlist; The Walter Scott Prize 2021 longlist), The Tomb Guardians ("Brilliant and witty" - Rowan Williams), and let me tell you, which was made into a song cycle by Hans Abrahamsen ('the greatest classical composition of the 21st century' - The Guardian)
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Henningham Family Press Mr. Beethoven
What if Beethoven had travelled to the United States? Taking up a commission to write a Biblical oratorio for Boston's Handel and Haydn Society?As Mr. Beethoven wrestles with his librettist and his muse, he comes to rely on two women. Thankful, who conducts his conversations using Martha's Vineyard sign language, and a kindred spirit: Mrs. Hill. Meanwhile all Boston waits in anxious expectation of a first performance Mr. Beethoven will never hear. Variously admonishing the amateur music society and laughing in the company of his hosts' children, the immortal composer is brought back to the fullness of life. Griffiths invents only what is strictly possible. His historiography weaves through the text in counterpoint, making this also a story about the fragility of the past and the remaining traces of the man: Mr. Beethoven.
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Henningham Family Press The Tomb Guardians
The tomb guardians awake to find the tomb empty and one of their number missing. Their conversation overlaps with another – an anguished lecturer and friend exploring the Renaissance Master portraits they occupy. One looks back at the dawn of the Reformation, the other thrashes out an excuse. Author of Mr. Beethoven (The Goldsmiths Prize 2020 shortlist; The Walter Scott Prize 2021 and Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021 longlists), Paul Griffiths sustains this theme: the power of the imagination to unlock history.
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Sylph Editions Tilted Cup: The Cahier Series 22
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Mr. Beethoven
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The New York Review of Books, Inc The Limit
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Geschichte der Musik: Vom Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart
Musik bewegt sich in der Zeit und darin gleicht sie unserem Leben. Ausgehend von diesem Gedanken schreibt der Autor eine mitreißende und kompakte Geschichte der westlichen Musik von ihren Anfängen bis ins 21. Jahrhundert der Komponisten, Interpreten und Zuhörer. An 24 Stationen der Geschichte hält er inne und betrachtet anhand der Komponisten, ihrer Werke und des gesellschaftlichen Umfelds die sich wandelnden Vorstellungen darüber, was Musik ist und wofür sie gemacht wird.
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