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From "The Wilderness Diary of Sigismundo Celine," chapter 7 of Nature's God.
From "The Wilderness Diary of Sigismundo Celine," chapter 7 of Nature's God.
Vivaldi: The Neapolitan heat, the Neapolitan eroticism, the Neapolitan paganism invading their "Christian" festivals.
Mozart: The planets revolving in Newtonian orbits, while children play and birds sing.
J.S. Bach: a naked goddess, a compass, a mason's square.
J.C. Bach: black opium in a lush and expensive brothel.
C.P.E. Bach: you see the loveliest woman in the world and then notice she has a nervous tic.
I plan to download some Johann Christian Bach next week; Wilson's description did make me wonder what his music sounds like.
3 comments:
Thanks for posting this, and happy J. S. Bach's birthday! I love Nature's God, and I love the use of music in all three of the Historical Illuminati Chronicles. I particularly like to read The Earth Will Shake while listening to Horowitz play Scarlatti.
The studio I'm currently working at, La Fabrique in the South of France has a 3000 plus collection of vinyl. On a table in the back is a beautiful 39 record boxed set of J.S. Bach's L'Oeurve D'Orgue by Lionel Rogg. I'm going to try to peruse it if time allows.
Howdy Oz! I love Sigismundo's response when he discovers Bach's Goldberg Variations in The Earth Will Shake. I think Wilson does a great job of making the musical world of the 1760's and 1770's come alive in that series. I imagine Sigismundo traveling to Vienna in the 1790's and meeting Beethoven.
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