Tregian's Ground
- Authors
- Anne Cuneo
- Publisher
- And Other Stories Publishing
- Tags
- contemporary fiction , literary fiction , novel , historical novel , translation , french , anne cuneo , switzerland , francis tregian , recusant , fitzwilliam virginal book , tregian the elder , tregian the younger , cornwall , clerkenwell’ catholicism , religious dissident , shakespeare , queen elizabeth i , elizabethan era , claudio monteverde , monteverdi , william cecil , henri iv , virginals , early modern music , partitions , copyist , keyboard music , harpsichord , renaissance , baroque , cardinal william allen , fleet prison , st bride’s church , trajet d’une rivière , der lauf des flusses , prix des libraires , prix litteraire madame europe , station victoria , hilary mantel , tracy chevalier , alison weir , as byatt
- Date
- 2016-06-05
- Size
- 4.68 MB
- Lang
- en
The significance of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book to our musical canon is well known; the remarkable story of its copyist and compiler, Francis Tregian, less so. Born into Cornish Catholic nobility and plumb into the choppy waters of the Elizabethan Age, he must rely on his surpassing skill as a musician to survive. In this Prix des Libraires (Booksellers Prize) winning novel, Anne Cuneo deftly recreates the musician's journey across Renaissance Europe, which sees him befriending Shakespeare, swapping partitions with William Byrd and Monteverdi, and playing in the court of Henri IV of France. The result is as gripping as it is authentic: an epic, transcontinental choreography in which Europe's monarchs tussle with pretenders to their thrones, and ordinary people steer between allegiances to God, nation and family.