When Your Song Breaks the Silence edition by Natalie Jacobs Literature Fiction eBooks
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In this work of creative nonfiction Franz Schubert's life and times come alive through his own eyes. He is a shy, self-deprecating man, unsure of himself socially but fully confident of his musical gifts and of the lasting importance of his symphonies, songs, and chamber pieces in the face of an indifferent public. Here is a colorful picture of Viennese artistic life in the first quarter of the nineteenth century and of the actual people in Schubert's short life his musical colleagues, friends, family and lovers. In this poignant, moving story of the great composer, we look into his mind and heart as he creates the music we know and love today.
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
"...A thoughtfully drawn portrait of Schubert's interior world adds depth to a straightforward story...The novel's most lovely passages occur when Schubert hears music--his own songs performed, a stirring composition in his mind, or the work of the haunting master Beethoven. The author writes about Schubert's musicality with grace and serious compassion. An air of mystery is added when Jacobs' parents reveal in the afterword that no one suspected her to have such a natural affinity with Franz Schubert; her dreamy portrait of the composer confirms a deep connection. Fans of historical fiction may especially appreciate this entertaining recreation of Schubert's life; familiarity with the composer and his music is not a prerequisite."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Once I started the book, I couldn't put it down. Natalie was a very gifted writer. The prose is beautifully rendered, the portrait of Schubert and his contemporaries utterly convincing without seeming too heavily researched, the story of his inner life compelling."
--Eileen Pollack, author of Breaking and Entering, Zell Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan
"There is never any doubt of her facts nor of the possibility of her fictions. Her intimately detailed inventions are woven into the tapestry of reality so seamlessley as to leave no question that they could be actual details in the life of the great composer."
--Laurence W. Thomas, founding editor of Third Wednesday magazine, published poet and educator.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Natalie Jacobs grew up in Ann Arbor, MI and graduated with high honors from the University of Michigan. She was completing midwifery training in Oregon when she died at 35. "An die Freude," a chapter from When Your Song Breaks the Silence, was published in the Winter 2010 issue of Battered Suitcase magazine and can be read or downloaded from the Vagabondage Press website.
When Your Song Breaks the Silence edition by Natalie Jacobs Literature Fiction eBooks
I thoroughly enjoyed reading "When Your Song Breaks the Silence." What most struck me is that it is a heartfelt story about the growth of a young man, finding his way in the world, trying to be true to his art and his values. I found myself reflecting and relating to Schubert more so than in ordinary historical fiction. On another level, the writing is creative, vivid, and rich, capturing the different periods in Schubert's life. This modernist touch, varying the narrative perspective, energizes the novel without it becoming confusing. Lastly, this is a story of music. Although, I'm not a great lover of classical music, this built my interest in it considerably.I highly recommend this book. It is a gem. I'm already planning on giving it to dear friends as a gift.
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When Your Song Breaks the Silence edition by Natalie Jacobs Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Natalie Jacobs' parents found this completed novel on her computer after her death. The outstanding prose writing in this historical novel make it a wonderful read; rendering Franz Schubert's very short life into a perspective that the 21st Century reader can appreciate. Thank you, Judith and Stanley Jacobs, for enabling us to read your daughter's words!
Though he died in his early thirties, Austrian composer Franz Schubert managed to leave behind a large body of work. That someone working nearly two hundred years ago could create music that is still popular today is, if nothing else, a testament to the staying power of one man's creative ability. But who exactly was this composer who associated with political dissidents and worked in the shadow of the great Beethoven?
Schubert is painted as a man who always knew he wanted to be a composer even if many of the trivialities of life managed to get in the way. From his unhappy days as a school teacher to his more productive time under various patronages, Schubert was first and foremost a composer. Even as his circle of friends had him out drinking and arguing at inconvenient hours, Schubert maintained a commitment to his work that stretched beyond occasionally frayed relationships. And many of Schubert's relationships can be said to have been frayed. While scholars still debate Schubert's sexual preferences, the Schubert of the novel is unrepentant in his love of men, particularly men who were loud and boisterous.
The composer's circle of friends and lovers were, after all, a tumultuous mix of the angry and creative, a mix that brought enough attention from the Austrian authorities to warrant arrest. As Schubert states about his friend Senn "It was his passion which drew me to him, but it was his passion which brought him down in the end, as I witnessed." Schubert uses the arrest to reflect on a time when, as a child, he was caught playing jacks with a French soldier during Napolean's first invasion, much to the consternation of his mother. "I couldn't understand; he was just a man in a uniform, that was all, and I was better at jacks than he was." Constantly at odds with the realities of the world, the novel is at its best when Schubert's artistic soul must reconcile with unhappy political climates and death.
Though occasionally clogged with the obvious, such as when Schubert compares himself to Beethoven (e.g. "He always felt so awkward and stupid when he compared himself to Beethoven"), Schubert nevertheless emerges as a believable figure, both liberated and trapped by the time in which he lived. Not much may actually be known about Schubert's personal life but the rendering given is enough to fill in just who the man behind works such as the Winterreise might have been. Gentle and longing with his romances though voracious and committed with his work, the Schubert presented is one who "turned up his wet face and sang his tune to the clouds, which answered with a slow ceasing of the rain, as if nature herself were falling silent to listen to his music."
Reviewed by Collin Marchiando for IndieReader
My husband and I read this book aloud and really really liked it interesting history and local color, amazing creation of an inner life, textured characters, emotional without being sappy, well paced.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading "When Your Song Breaks the Silence." What most struck me is that it is a heartfelt story about the growth of a young man, finding his way in the world, trying to be true to his art and his values. I found myself reflecting and relating to Schubert more so than in ordinary historical fiction. On another level, the writing is creative, vivid, and rich, capturing the different periods in Schubert's life. This modernist touch, varying the narrative perspective, energizes the novel without it becoming confusing. Lastly, this is a story of music. Although, I'm not a great lover of classical music, this built my interest in it considerably.
I highly recommend this book. It is a gem. I'm already planning on giving it to dear friends as a gift.
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