Lea Singer

Die Poesie der Hörigkeit

Elisabeth Lauffer

Piano Student

Der Klavierschüler

The Piano Student centers on an affair between one of the 20th century’s most celebrated pianists, Vladimir Horowitz, and his young male student, Nico Kaufmann, in the late 1930s. As Europe hurtles toward political catastrophe and Horowitz rises to the pinnacle of artistic achievement, the great pianist must hide his illicit love from his wife Wanda, the daughter of the renowned conductor Arturo Toscanini. The affair is narrated by Kaufmann in the 1980s to another music devotee, who comes to him enchanted by Schumann’s Träumerei and awakens memories of the thwarted relationship. Kaufmann is spending his final years playing in small-time Zurich bars, never rivaling his teacher’s musical mastery and rapturously received concerts. Based on unpublished letters by Horowitz to Kaufmann that author Lea Singer herself discovered in Switzerland, the book portrays the anguish that the acclaimed musician felt about his never publicly acknowledged homosexuality and the attendant duplicity of his relationships. It's a riveting and sensitive novel about musical perfection, love, and longing denied, with multiple historical layers and insights into artistic creativity.

The Piano Student

Im Sommer 1935 treffen sich Arturo Toscanini, Eleonora von Mendelssohn, Kurt Weill, Alma Mahler-Werfel und Franz Werfel im Schloss von Max Reinhardt. Lea Singer beschreibt diesen Sommer atmosphärisch.

Roman

Vier Farben der Treue

Caspar David Friedrich und Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Zwei Genies, zwei Epochen. Zwei Künstler wie sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten: Johann Wolfgang Goethe, das alternde Universalgenie, und der junge, wilde Romantiker Caspar David Friedrich. Als sie sich 1810 begegnen, ist der eine auf dem Zenith seines Ruhms, während der andere mit allen Konventionen seiner Zeit bricht. Beide sind fasziniert von derselben Frau ... Lea Singer erzählt von der Begegnung zweier großer Künstler, die einander fremd bleiben, obwohl sie die Größe des anderen erkennen.

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