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Saving Mozart (2013)

by Raphaël Jerusalmy(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1609451457 (ISBN13: 9781609451455)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Europa Editions

review 1: Beautifully written. Dying of consumption in a poorly run sanatorium in Salzburg, a lonely, conflicted music critic records his days in the first diary he has ever written. His determination to stay alive is fueled by his desire to "save Mozart" at the 1940 Salzburg Festspiele. As he does, he has also stopped "a voice from being silenced. One voice out of many thousands, but a voice, which, if it had been stifled, would have killed the music in me. And all music." And the symbol for which that music stands for means so much more...
review 2: A depressing but ultimately uplifting little novel. Very much worth the read. From Amazon: Raphaël Jerusalmy’s debut novel takes the form of the journal of Otto J. Steiner, a former music critic of Jewish descent suffe... morering from tuberculosis in a Salzburg sanatorium in 1939. Drained by his illness and isolated in the gloomy sanatorium, Steiner finds solace only in music. He is horrified to learn that the Nazis’ are transforming a Mozart festival into a fascist event. Steiner feels helpless at first, but an invitation from a friend presents him with an opportunity to fight back. Under the guise of organizing a concert for Nazi officials, Steiner formulates a plan to save Mozart that could dramatically change the course of the war. less

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