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02584aam a2200349 i 4500 001 AF8912406BEF11E5917E58C1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151006010103 008 141024s2015 nyu 000 f eng d 020 $a 1609452720 020 $a 9781609452728 035 $a (OCoLC)893895221 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d HCO $d OCLCO $d NhCcYBP $d SILO 043 $a e-au--- 050 4 $a PT2623.O84 $b E513 2015 082 04 $a 838.91 $2 23 100 1 $a Lothar, Ernst, $d 1890-1974, $e author. 240 10 $a Engel mit der Posaune. $l English 245 14 $a The Vienna melody / $c Ernst Lothar ; translated from the German by Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood. 264 1 $a New York, N.Y. : $b Europa Editions, $c [2015] 300 $a 594 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a "Original title: Der Engel mit der Posaune"--Title page verso. 520 $a "All Vienna knows that the inhabitant of number 10 Seilerstatte is none other than Christopher Alt, piano maker, the best in Vienna, probably in all of Austria, and possiblly the world over. His piano keys have given life to melodies by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and many more. On his deathbed, moved by the wish to keep his children united, he leaves a will specifying that his descendants, if they are to get their inheritance, must live together in the family home. Over successive generations of the Alt family, history itself passes through the doors, down the halls, and into the private rooms of the Alt's building. There is intrigue at the court of Franz-Josef: an heir to the throne has fallen in love with Henrietta Alt, who will have to carry the guilt for his eventual suicide. There are betrayals, beloved illegitimate children, and despised legitimate offspring. There are seething passions and icy relations, a world war and the rise of Nazism to contend with. There are duals, ambitions, hopes, affairs of the heart and affairs of state. Three generations of Alts live and die at number 10 Silerstatte and each member of the family, in his or or her own way, is a privileged witness to the winds of change and a Europe at the height of both its splendor and decadence"--Page 2 of cover. 650 0 $a Families $z Vienna $z Vienna $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Vienna (Austria) $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Vienna (Austria) $x History $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Hapgood, Elizabeth Reynolds, $e translator. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180201061541.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20161202022303.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AF8912406BEF11E5917E58C1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search