An award-winning journey through Johann Sebastian Bach's six cello suites and the brilliant musician who revealed their lasting genius.One fateful evening, journalist and pop-music critic Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites—an experience that set him on an epic quest to uncover the mysterious history of the entrancing compositions and their miraculous reemergence nearly two hundred years later. In pursuit of his musicolog...

“[Siblin] offers intrigue, brings history to life and skillfully weaves them into a compelling storyline.” — Edwards Book Club ReviewsA murder mystery about the shady side of the antiquities trade, ancient philosophy, and tech’s utopian promises.Marcus Sinclair is a history teacher whose life is stuck in neutral when he inherits a papyrus scroll from his antiquarian uncle. The mysterious scroll might contain a lost masterpiece from ancient ...

One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites - and fell deeply in love. So began a quest that would unravel three centuries of mystery, intrigue, history, politics, and passion. The Cello Suites weaves together three dramatic narratives: the first features Bach and the missing manuscript of the suites; the next, the legendary Spanish Catalan cellist Pablo Casals and his historic disc...

Este libro es en parte una biografía, en parte una historia musical y en parte un relato de misterio, en el que se unen tres hilos narrativos. El primero lo protagoniza J.S. Bach, y la partitura de las suites, escrita en el siglo XVIII y desaparecida; el segundo sigue a Pau Casals, y su histórico descubrimiento de estas piezas de Bach a finales del siglo XIX; y por fin, llegamos al siglo XXI y al autor de este libro, a su obsesión por las suites tras oírlas en directo casi por casualidad, ...

«Siblin fonde musica alta e bassa, arte e politica, le storie di Bach e di Casals in un unico, straordinario racconto.» The New York Times Una sera d'autunno, Eric Siblin, critico musicale di musica pop, assiste all'esecuzione delle Suites per violoncello di Bach. Accade l'inaspettato. Si innamora. Biografia, saggio di storia della musica, caccia al mistero, Le Suites per violoncello intreccia tre racconti: la vita di Bach e la scomparsa del manoscritto originale, la leggendaria riscoperta...

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“[Siblin] offers intrigue, brings history to life and skillfully weaves them into a compelling storyline.” — Edwards Book Club ReviewsA murder mystery about the shady side of the antiquities trade, ancient philosophy, and tech’s utopian promises.Marcus Sinclair is a history teacher whose life is stuck in neutral when he inherits a papyrus scroll from his antiquarian uncle. The mysterious scroll might contain a lost masterpiece from ancient ...

One fateful evening, journalist Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites and began an epic quest that would unravel three centuries of intrigue, politics, and passion. Winner of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfiction and the McAuslan First Book Prize, The Cello Suites weaves together three dramatic narratives: the disappearance of Bach's manuscript in the eighteenth century; Pablo Casals's discovery and popularization of the music in Spain in...