A novel by the author of "The Cover Artist". Pierre Marie La Valoise resents Sir Geoffrey Flynch's attempts to take credit for the success of the French concert pianist, David Debrizzi. La Valoise, in a Swiss sanatorium, answers Flynch's distorted biography of Debrizzi with his own version.
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This satisfying tale of a has-been pianist who is redeemed by his own student is well worth hunting down and reading.
I push "The Death of David Debrizzi" on anything with two legs that reads. Once a year I reread it myself and still howl like a hyena at its biting wit and surprise end. The book is about a young pianist-turned-teacher and his prodigy student. Along the way, other musicians join the cast: an eccentric Russian piano prodigy and a scheming, mediocre conductor. Professional back-stabbing, career comebacks, and prima donna pianists with hilarious affectations litter the novel. One of the funniest episodes in the book concerns Debrizzi's recording of a fictional work of music, "The Death Spiral," described as "beautifully ugly," "a putrid musical stew," and . . . impossible to play. So much drek gets published and promoted to the heavens. Don't miss this hard-to-find gem.
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