Tregian'S Ground: The Life and Sometimes Secret Adventures of Francis Tregian, Gentleman and Musician - Softcover

Cuneo, Anne; Lalaurie, Louise Rogers

 
9781908276544: Tregian'S Ground: The Life and Sometimes Secret Adventures of Francis Tregian, Gentleman and Musician
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1908276541 ISBN 13: 9781908276544
Verlag: And Other Stories, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The significance of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book to our musical canon is well known; the remarkable story of its copyist and compiler, Francis Tregian, less so.
Born into Cornish Catholic nobility and plumb into the choppy waters of the Elizabethan Age, he must rely on his surpassing skill as a musician to survive.

In this Prix des Libraires (Booksellers Prize) winning novel, Anne Cuneo deftly recreates the musician's journey across Renaissance Europe, which sees him befriending Shakespeare, swapping partitions with William Byrd and Monteverdi, and playing in the court of Henri IV of France.

The result is as gripping as it is authentic: an epic, transcontinental choreography in which Europe's monarchs tussle with pretenders to their thrones, and ordinary people steer between allegiances to God, nation and family.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anne Cuneo was born in Paris to Italian parents, and raised in Switzerland and in England. She is a writer, filmmaker and journalist, and holds a degree in literature from the University of Lausanne. Her career spans four decades and fifteen novels, as well as dozens of plays and scripts for theater, TV and radio.

Originally published in French as Le trajet d&;une rivière, Tregian&;s Ground was awarded the prestigious Prix des Libraires, which celebrates the best novel published in the Francophone world each year. It has sold over 120,000 copies across Europe.

Roland Glasser studied theater and art history in the UK and France, and has published over twenty translations from French (art, travel and trade non-fiction). He co-manages the Emerging Translators Network, and serves on the committee of the UK Translators Association. He lived in Paris for over a decade, and is currently based in London.

Louise Rogers Lalaurie translates literary and genre fiction from French, including traveller and psychogeographer Jean Rolin, and novelists Antoine Laurain and Gabrielle Wittkop. She is the winner of three French Voices awards. Her translation of Olivier Truc&;s crime début Forty Days Without Shadow was shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger in 2014. She has lived in France since 1991, dividing her time between Toulouse and the Seine valley south of Paris.

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Verlag
And Other Stories
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1908276541
ISBN 13 
9781908276544
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
450
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