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Apollo's Shadow
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Celebrated Russian composer Alexander Glazunov carries heartbreak and disenchantment to exile in France in 1928. Can he rediscover the musical inspiration that saw his first symphony performed at the age of 16?
In this semi-biographical account of his life, we find Sascha in Paris, inexorably drawn back to his past in Tsarist Russia. To his love, before the February Revolution of 1917, for the gifted pianist Natascha Kaminskaya and the tragic consequences for them both. Like so many White Russian émigrés, Sascha longs to return home, but Stalin’s rise to power makes that prospect ever more remote.
He struggles to find artistic acknowledgement in an age when his ripe, late-Romantic style of music seems out of touch, and watches as Natascha’s wayward and impressionable sister Sonya falls under the malign influence of the ultra-nationalist politician Jean-Paul Morel.
In late middle age, can he exorcise the ghosts of his past and regain his brilliant powers of musical creativity?
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Historical
Format: Paperback
Published: 2021
Pages: 502
Publisher: Independently published
ISBN: 9798740081960
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