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Piano music for four hands / Roger Grenier ; translated and with a preface by Alice Kaplan.
- Title
- Piano music for four hands / Roger Grenier ; translated and with a preface by Alice Kaplan.
- Author
- Grenier, Roger, 1919-2017
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ2613.R4323 P3513 2001 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Kaplan, Alice Yaeger.
- Description
- 153 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "" "Piano Music for Four Hands" is a novel about music and love set against three generations of French history. At its center is a charming but melancholy pianist named Michel Mailhoc. Having survived a series of bungled love affairs and professional disappointments, he retreats to his family house in the Pyrenees. The bright spot in his life is his grandniece Emma, who becomes his prizewinning student. Struggling with his fervent desire for her success and the fear of losing her, Michel sends Emma into the world of international musical stardom that he has renounced for himself. The Mailhoc family saga, stretching from World War I to the turbulent 1960s, is full of sorrow, but the underlying melody remains tender and humorous. From the first sentence we feel curiously at home in Roger Grenier's intimate, precise, and musical writing.
- Uniform Title
- Partita. English
- Alternative Title
- Partita.
- Piano music for 4 hands
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Musical fiction.
- Love stories
- Historical fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- pt. 1. The Art of the Fugue -- pt. 2. The Hygrometer -- pt. 3. The Victory of Time and Disillusion.
- ISBN
- 0803221819 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0803270879 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^00064837^
- OCLC
- 44905155
- SCSB-12885499
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library