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The crime novel on the 250th birthday of the master composer
When the young palace administrator Sebastian Reiser arrives in Vienna, the great composer Ludwig van Beethoven is preparing for the premiere of his ninth symphony. The whole city is eagerly awaiting the concert in the Kärntnertortheater. But the performance is controversial. Not only among conservative music enthusiasts, but also among banned fraternities. Reiser has the chance to play in the orchestra and gets caught in a dangerous web of intrigue and secret politics.
It is one of the most successful pieces of music of all times, still omnipresent today. Marking the peak of classical music, Beethoven's 9th Symphony was already regarded as groundbreaking during the composer's lifetime, but it was also controversial from the very beginning. In the conservative Metternich era, it was considered by many to be too radical. Beethoven's revolutionary act of incorporating a choir into a symphony met with widespread incomprehension among traditionalists. If Mozart was the greatest pop star in music history, Beethoven was its greatest rock idol - maladjusted, driven, choleric and always in search of a new musical and social order.
On the occasion of the 250th birthday of the composer, who was born in Bonn and moved more than 50 times during his life, music journalist, classical expert and crime writer Oliver Buslau dedicates a novel to the brilliant and exceptional composer, that centres on the secrets of the last completed symphony. The story about a spy, who actually does not want to be a spy and tries to fathom the riddle of Beethoven's deafness, revives the premiere of the composer's most famous work against the background of political unrest in Vienna during Metternich's time. The author skilfully links the social circumstances with a dramatic criminal case, always imbued with Beethoven's masterpiece and thirst for freedom.
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Author Biography
Like his protagonist, Oliver Buslau is a violist and orchestra musician. He is also active as a composer. For many years he has worked as a classical music expert for various radio stations, print media, and various record companies. He began his career as an author at the end of the 1990s as the inventor of the Wuppertal private detective Remigius Rott, who has since solved his cases in ten detective stories. In addition, Buslau has written, among other things, crime novels about music, numerous short crime novels and the popular music guide "111 Works of Classical Music That You Should Know".
emons Verlag
The Cologne-based publishing house Emons was founded by Hermann-Josef Emons in 1984. We now have over 80 regional crime series, taking place in every part of Germany and since 2009 Emons crime novels also take place abroad (Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Italy etc.). Our books were published in over 13 countries, like Japan, Slowenia and Finland. Since 2009 we also publish our 111places (111 Orte) series. This illustrated guidebook series presents cities, regions and even whole countries from a wonderfully different and personal perspective.
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- Publisher Emons
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783740806163
- Publication Country or regionGermany
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 22 EUR
- Pages496
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language AuthorsGerman
- Copyright Year2020
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