the engrossing story of a child prodigy in the court of Louis XIV
- Written by: Judith Armstrong, Honorary Fellow of the School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne
Wikimedia CommonsBrilliant. Inventive. Devilish.
This is how 15-year old Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (1699-1742) describes the music that his father Antoine (1672-1745) draws from the viol, aka viola da gamba. The same words could be applied to this novel, a brilliant read inventively devised by Adelaide’s Michael Meehan, but somewhat devilish to...
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