Maurice Guest
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You are Maurice Guest, arrived on the night train to study piano in a Leipzig that already sorts newcomers into decades of hope or of rent. A rehearsal leaves Beethoven ringing in you; a friend's warnings turn choosing between two teachers, Schwarz's severity and Bendel's flattery, into the day's real test. An Englishwoman, Madeleine Wade, rescues you from a waiter's dialect and tells you to petition Schwarz directly, by letter, before courage cools. By the time you sit down to write home, an answer has already arrived.
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- The Stranger after the RehearsalLeipzig