Dunlap, Susanne (2009). The Musician’s Daughter. New York: Bloomsbury.All Theresa ever wanted to do was make music with her father. However, after he is murdered, she sets out to figure out who killed her father and why.
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Theresa Maria only dreamed of the time when her father would bring home a violin for her to play. She loved her viola, but longed to play the instrument her father cared so deeply about. However, her dreams came crashing down the night Heinrich, Jakob, and Zoltán bring the body of her murdered father to her home. What would she do? How could they live without her father’s income from Kapellmeister Haydn? Would she have to give up her study of music in order to find a way to provide for her family? Will she turn her back on her father’s world and embrace her mother’s family? Or will she stay true to her roots as The Musician’s Daughter?
I really enjoyed this book. It is amazing how the author was able to create the story of a girl in 18th Century Vienna, Austria and intertwine it with the musical world of the time. Theresa Maria was not well off, but was able to participate in the world of the upper society because of the love of music at the time. This book does a good job of hinting at what the lower classes had to deal with at this time at the hands of the upper class and blood did not mean as much as money and title. It is an intriguing adventure that explains some of the obstacles a middle class girl in Austria must face as well as the upper class and that unique group that no one could figure out - the Gypsies.
Theresa Maria only dreamed of the time when her father would bring home a violin for her to play. She loved her viola, but longed to play the instrument her father cared so deeply about. However, her dreams came crashing down the night Heinrich, Jakob, and Zoltán bring the body of her murdered father to her home. What would she do? How could they live without her father’s income from Kapellmeister Haydn? Would she have to give up her study of music in order to find a way to provide for her family? Will she turn her back on her father’s world and embrace her mother’s family? Or will she stay true to her roots as The Musician’s Daughter?
I really enjoyed this book. It is amazing how the author was able to create the story of a girl in 18th Century Vienna, Austria and intertwine it with the musical world of the time. Theresa Maria was not well off, but was able to participate in the world of the upper society because of the love of music at the time. This book does a good job of hinting at what the lower classes had to deal with at this time at the hands of the upper class and blood did not mean as much as money and title. It is an intriguing adventure that explains some of the obstacles a middle class girl in Austria must face as well as the upper class and that unique group that no one could figure out - the Gypsies.
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