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A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'A masterpiece'SCOTSMAN'A wise, refreshing novel, and a touching human story... Runcie has an expert imagination'HILARY MANTELLove and Death.Grief and Joy.Music that lasts forever.Leipzig, 1726. Eleven-year-old Stefan Silbermann, a humble organ-maker's son, has just lost his mother. Sent to Leipzig to train as a singer in the St Thomas Church choir, he struggles to stay afloat in a school where the teachers are as casually cruel as the students.Stefan's talent draws the attention of the Cantor – Johann Sebastian Bach. Eccentric, obsessive and kind, he rescues Stefan from the miseries of school by bringing him into his home as an apprentice. Soon Stefan feels that this ferociously clever, chaotic family is his own. But when tragedy strikes, Stefan's period of sanctuary in their household comes to a close.Something is happening, though. In the depths of his loss, the Cantor is writing a new work: the Saint Matthew Passion, to be performed for the first time on Good Friday. As Stefan watches the work rehearsed, he realises he is witness to the creation of one of the most extraordinary pieces of music that has ever been written.'Brilliant... Readers will

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Author

James Runcie

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781408885543

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (385 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14