An Equal Music
1-86159-117-9 (first edition, hardcover), (ISBN 0-7679-0291-2 (hardcover edition) & ISBN 0-375-70924-X (paperback edition)
An Equal Music (1999) is a novel by Vikram Seth.
Plot
The plot concerns Michael, a professional violinist, who never forgot his love for Julia, a pianist he met as a student in Vienna. They meet again after a decade, and conduct a secret affair, though she is married and has one child. Their musical careers are affected by this affair and the knowledge that Julia is going deaf.
A recurring element throughout the plot is the pair's performance of Beethoven's Piano Trio Opus 1 No.3, which they first perform in their college days.
Seth together with Philippe Honoré marketed a double CD of the music mentioned in An Equal Music, performed by Honoré.[1]
Reception
The book was especially well received by musical fans, who noted the accuracy of Seth's descriptions of music.[citation needed]
Paolo Isotta, one of Italy's most significant music critics, wrote in the influential newspaper Il Corriere della Sera of the Italian translation that no European writer had ever shown such a knowledge of European classical music, nor had any European novel before managed to convey the psychology, the technical abilities, even the human potentialities of those who practise music for a living.[2]
Works referenced
Several musical works figure prominently in An Equal Music. Among these are the Trout Quintet by Franz Schubert, the String Quintet in C minor by Ludwig van Beethoven, and The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Notes
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- The Golden Gate
- A Suitable Boy
- An Equal Music
- A Suitable Girl
- Mappings
- The Humble Administrator's Garden
- All You Who Sleep Tonight
- Beastly Tales
- Beastly Tales
- Arion and the Dolphin
- From Heaven Lake
- Two Lives
- Three Chinese Poets
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