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Music, silence, love and power: the engrossing story of a child prodigy in the court of Louis XIV
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Brilliant. Inventive. Devilish. This is how 15-year old Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (1699-1742) describes the music that his father Antoine (1672-1745) draws from the viol, aka viola da gamba. The same words could be applied to this novel, a brilliant…