Are you loving the music in Annette’s story? Lots of readers are bringing the rich musical repertoire of A Distant Prospect gloriously to life, by enjoying performances they find online. Here, for instance, Leonard Rose (cello) and Glenn Gould (piano) play the first movement of Beethoven’s Cello Sonata in A […]
Beethoven
Classical music, as encountered in 1910 Vienna by characters in A Distant Prospect, owes nearly everything to four composers who worked in that city over a century earlier. The First Viennese School comprised Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, who all composed in Vienna in the latter 1700s, and were even known to […]