Chopin's Piano Tuner Navigates Intrigue in The Education of Delhomme by Nancy Burkhalter
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My guest today is Nancy Burkhalter, author of The Education of Delhomme, listed in the Music category on Art In Fiction.
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Why Chopin needed a piano tuner: how Nancy, tuning pianos herself while listening to Chopin, realized he "had to have" one, and that's how the novel's narrator, Delhomme, was born.
Blending fact and fiction: the wall-sized timeline, real history on top, novel's action below, that kept Delhomme's Paris anchored to the actual events of 1848 without letting fiction outrun fact.
A poor man's bargain: why Delhomme…
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