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Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer
Charles Jessold Considered as a Murderer
Author: Wesley Stace
The night before brilliant but erratic composer Charles Jessold's opera - about a betrayed husband who murders his wife and her lover - is due to open, Jessold is found dead, having apparently murdered his wife and her lover. Leslie Shepherd, music critic and Jessold's collaborator on the opera, reflects on the scandalous affair in a dazzling, p...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780099546573
ISBN-10: 0099546574
Publication Date: 7/1/2011
Pages: 352
Edition: First Edition
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Publisher: Vintage Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Interesting story intertwined with the evolution of British classical music in the first half of the twentieth century. It never quite grabbed me the way Stace's novel By George did. Apparently you can listen online to music written to replicate the works of the fictitious composer at the center of the novel.


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