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Philharmonia
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ISBN13: 9798189930935
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 30 2026
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 30 2026
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Four years ago, Gael Cannon left a village music school on the Irish coast to conduct an orchestra in Boston. Now his patron is sending him to Nepal, on an errand that has nothing to do with conducting: find a viol built almost four hundred years ago by Giovanni Maggini, and bring it back. He brings back more than an instrument.
The viol is one of five, scattered across the world - and each of them has given itself a body. Ageless, needing neither food nor rest, human to look at, the Incarnations play their instruments as no living musician can.
An association has spent decades trying to find all five and gather them around a single score: a last symphony Tchaikovsky is said to have written in secret, and never published. It calls itself Philharmonia. Gael is now one of them.
What nobody will tell him is what happens when the Last Symphony is played. Someone read it, more than a century ago, and gave the order to destroy every instrument it was written for. From a Himalayan glacier to the cliffs of Slieve League: the hunt for five impossible instruments, and for the music they were made to perform.
An association has spent decades trying to find all five and gather them around a single score: a last symphony Tchaikovsky is said to have written in secret, and never published. It calls itself Philharmonia. Gael is now one of them.
What nobody will tell him is what happens when the Last Symphony is played. Someone read it, more than a century ago, and gave the order to destroy every instrument it was written for. From a Himalayan glacier to the cliffs of Slieve League: the hunt for five impossible instruments, and for the music they were made to perform.
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