The thorn of the honey locust : the chronicle of an eighteenth-century musician / a novel by Geoffrey Burgess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burgess, Geoffrey (Oboist), author.

Contributor:

Local Philadelphia : A Novel Idea Bookstore Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gleditsch, Johann Caspar, 1684-1747--Fiction.

Gleditsch, Johann Caspar.

Oboe players--Germany--Leipzig--18th century--Fiction.

Oboe players.

Musicians--Germany--Leipzig--18th century--Fiction.

Musicians.

Germany.

Germany--Leipzig.

Genre:

Fiction

Novels

Historical fiction

Novels.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

439 pages : genealogical tables ; 23 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2023.

Summary:

A garden historian and a musicologist stumble on a long-forgotten manuscript containing information relevant to their two disciplines. The chronicle of Johann Caspar Gleditsch, a prominent Leipzig musician for whom Bach wrote his most difficult and beautiful passages for oboe, reveals a life rich in adventure, court intrigue, family dramas, and secrets hidden behind the manicured hedges of Leipzig’s gardens. Geoffrey Burgess spins a tale of the mundane and the extraordinary in Germany at the dawn of the Age of Reason. Based on extensive research, The Thorn of the Honey Locust is shot through with intriguing glimpses of scientific experiments, botanical discoveries, and the musical practices of the time. It is the story of how the thorns of an American tree came to symbolize the unsettling antagonisms between father and son.

ISBN:

9798375170985

OCLC:

1376530335