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The Cello Suites by Eric Siblin

Winner of McAuslan First Book Prize in 2009

Winner of The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction in 2009

Cello

Part biography, part music history, and part literary mystery, The Cello Suites weaves together three dramatic narratives: The first features Johann Sebastian Bach and the missing manuscript of his suites from the eighteenth century; the second follows Pablo Casals and the historic discovery of the music in Spain in the late nineteenth century; and the third is Eric Siblin’s own infatuation with the suites in the twenty-first century. This love affair leads Siblin to the back streets of Barcelona and a Belgian mansion; to interviews with cellists Mischa Maisky, Anner Bylsma, and Pieter Wispelwey; to archives, festivals, and conferences; and even to cello lessons — all in pursuit of answers to the mysteries that continue to haunt this piece of music more than 250 years after its composer’s death.

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

English

Non-Fiction

9780887842221

House of Anansi Press

Toronto

2009

320

hardcover