"Roger Curtis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>An excellent recommendation.  I got the book from my local library and
>found it quite absorbing.  I'll try the Vikram Seth next.  Can anyone
>else recommend any other novels with a classical music background?

Many years ago I read anything I could get my hands on by Herman Hesse.
One book I remember enjoying, although I don't remember the book in
detail, was GERTRUDE.  It involved a composer and two opera singers,
one male and one female.  I think everyone loved the wrong person, and
it was not particularly a happy story, but, as many Hesse novels, it was
a great read and it was art.

I also remember reading a short novel, KLEIN UND WAGNER, which may have
appeared within a collection along with KLINGSOR'S LAST SUMMER.  K&W was
a weird story -- but there's a lot of details missing from my memory of
those days...

I might just get them from my library one of these days and see if I
still think they're as good as I once did.

Miguel Muelle
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