Beethoven's Hair - Hardcover

Martin, Russell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0767903501 ISBN 13: 9780767903509

Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2000

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Book by Martin Russell

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The author of Out of Silence follows a single lock of hair from Ludwig van Beethoven, from the great composer's deathbed in 1827, through its role as a relic in the Hiller family, into the hands of a doctor in Nazi-occupied Denmark, to its 1994 sale at Southeby's, and describes the scientific research done on the hair to uncover information about Beethoven's life. 25,000 first printing.

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eethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer. In those days, it was customary to snip a lock of hair as a keepsake, and this Hiller did a day after Beethoven's death. By the time he was buried, Beethoven's head had been nearly shorn by the many people who similarly had wanted a lasting memento of the great man. Such was his powerful effect on all those who had heard his music.

For a century, the lock of hair was a treasured Hiller family relic, and perhaps was destined to end up sequestered in a bank vault, until it somehow found its way to the town of Gilleleje, in Nazi-occupied Denmark, during the darkest days of the Second World War. There, it was given to a local doctor, Kay Fremming, who was deeply involved in the effort to help save hundreds of hunted and frightened Jews. Who gave him the hair, and why? And what was the fate of those refugees, holed up in the attic of Gilleleje's church?

After Fremmin

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• Verlag: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0767903501
• ISBN 13: 9780767903509
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276