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Of Wizards and Angels: A Supernatural Fantasy

Of Wizards and Angels: A Supernatural Fantasy

Braai, Charles Louis

Paperback

Fantasy

ISBN10: 1426954417
ISBN13: 9781426954412
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Feb 15 2011
Pages: 672
Weight: 1.95
Height: 1.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the late seventeen hundreds and early eighteen hundreds, I was Beethoven's prized pupil, can believe it. Unfortunately I had to quit him for reasons not concerning music. It was really quite silly. I was supposed to be protecting my good name. You see, it was rumored that the maestro, Beethoven, was a womanizer and while conducting orchestras he also conducted many affairs with his young female students. In those times, although mostly behind their backs, some men and even some women were referred to as libertines. Of course any man as emotional as Beethoven had to be romantically exotic but I didn't consider him a libertine; it was just that young women threw themselves at him and he used the opportunities. The saddest part was this remarkable man was almost deaf; in later years he became almost completely and totally deaf. Yet this man was such a genius, just by reading the written notes, he could hear the music inside his head. Often, he laid his hands on the piano as I played. At times, when I played, particularly when we were alone, after he'd closed the piano, thus containing the sound, he'd than lay his head down on the piano; by doing so, with his temple held tightly on the lid, it enabled him to hear it fully the way it was meant to be heard. This was done only prudently and only witnessed by certain people, as he was embarrassed and at first, not wanting to admit being deaf. No matter how much relief I'd get by forgetting the music I never would forget it on purpose. That music is a part of me, more so than my arms and limbs even; the music is more part of me than my perceived beauty or my Immortality.

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