Vienna Nocturne: A Novel
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Vivien Shotwell. (2014). Vienna Nocturne: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group.

Vivien Shotwell. 2014. Vienna Nocturne: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group.

Vivien Shotwell, Vienna Nocturne: A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2014.

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   • bioText: Vivien Shotwell is a classically trained singer with degrees from Williams College, the Yale School of Music, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. As an undergraduate voice student at Williams, Shotwell first sang the beautiful aria “Non temer, amato bene” (“Don’t fear, greatly beloved”), which Mozart wrote for and performed with the young soprano Anna Storace, and knew she had to tell their story. A daughter of independent booksellers, Shotwell was born in Colorado, raised in Nova Scotia, and now divides her time between Halifax, Nova Scotia, and New Haven, Connecticut. This is her first novel.
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In the tradition of Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife and Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone comes a sweeping historical love story and a portrait of an age. Vienna Nocturne is a deeply moving debut novel that brings to life two extraordinary figures—a thirty-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a young English soprano, Anna Storace, who was his muse—in prose as spirited, timeless, and touching as Mozart’s greatest compositions.
In late-eighteenth-century London, a young girl takes her first singing lessons with a mysterious castrato in exile. Her life is forever changed. Having learned everything he can teach her, Anna leaves behind all the security and familiarity of home and journeys to Naples and Venice to struggle and triumph in Italy’s greatest opera houses. Only sixteen, she finds herself in an intoxicating world of theaters, nobility, and vice, overwhelmed by her newfound freedom and fame. Her first bitter experience of love and heartbreak inevitably follows.
Within a few years, Anna is invited to sing in Vienna, the City of Music, by the emperor himself. There, in a teasing game of theft and play, Anna first meets Mozart, a young virtuoso pianist and striving, prodigiously talented composer. They are matched in intellect and talent, and an immediate and undeniable charge occurs between the two, despite both being married to others.
As her star rises in Vienna and her personal life deteriorates, Anna experiences an ultimate crisis. During this trying time, her only light is Mozart: his energy, his determination for her, and his art. She, in turn, becomes his hope and inspiration, and his joy, as he writes for her some of his most exquisite and enduring arias—music that will live on as his masterworks.
Rich in historical detail and beautifully wrought by Vivien Shotwell, an author who is herself an opera singer, Vienna Nocturne is a dramatic tour de force of a woman’s struggle to find love and fame in an eighteenth-century world that controls and limits her at every turn.
Advance praise for Vienna Nocturne
 
“You don’t have to be an opera buff to fall deep into Vienna Nocturne. Vivien Shotwell catapults you straight into the eighteenth century with abundant, vivid detail. I found Anna Storace’s journey from prodigy to prima donna an irresistible tale.”—Nancy Horan, author of Loving Frank and Under the Wide and Starry Sky
 
“Passionate and yet precise, dense with feeling yet as clean as a bird in flight: This novel emulates Mozart’s music even as it beautifully imagines his love for a memorable singer. What an excellent debut!”—Andrea Barrett, National Book Award–winning author of Archangel and Ship Fever
 
“Vienna Nocturne is as finely intelligent as it is lushly romantic, and beautifully renders how much music can convey, even when it’s hardly the only expressive tool lovers have at hand. Very few novels have expressed as persuasively how it feels to be taken up by the kind of passions that, despite everything, can make a soul huge with life and joy.”—Jim Shepard, author of National Book Award finalist Like You’d Understand, Anyway
 
“Vivien Shotwell has written a novel that, like her heroine, the singer Anna Storace, is brilliant, warm, irresistible, and infinitely moving. Her descriptions of music, of her characters, of Venice and Vienna are so vivid and so richly compelling that I was amazed to look up from...

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   • source: Andrea Barrett, National Book Award--winning author of Archangel and Ship Fever
   • content: "You don't have to be an opera buff to fall deep into Vienna Nocturne. Vivien Shotwell catapults you straight into the eighteenth century with abundant, vivid detail. I found Anna Storace's journey from prodigy to prima donna an irresistible tale."--Nancy Horan, author of Loving Frank and Under the Wide and Starry Sky "Passionate and yet precise, dense with feeling yet as clean as a bird in flight: This novel emulates Mozart's music even as it beautifully imagines his love for a memorable singer. What an excellent debut!"
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   • source: Yael Goldstein Love, author of The Passion of Tasha Darsky
   • content: "Vienna Nocturne is as finely intelligent as it is lushly romantic, and beautifully renders how much music can convey, even when it's hardly the only expressive tool lovers have at hand. Very few novels have expressed as persuasively how it feels to be taken up by the kind of passions that, despite everything, can make a soul huge with life and joy."--Jim Shepard, author of National Book Award finalist Like You'd Understand, Anyway "Vivien Shotwell has written a novel that, like her heroine, the singer Anna Storace, is brilliant, warm, irresistible, and infinitely moving. Her descriptions of music, of her characters, of Venice and Vienna are so vivid and so richly compelling that I was amazed to look up from these pages and discover that I was still in Massachusetts. Vienna Nocturne is a transporting and deeply satisfying debut."--Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street and The Flight of Gemma Hardy "Vivien Shotwell's love, knowledge, and passion for music shines through this seductive tale. A lovely read."--Eva Stachniak, author of The Winter Palace "Vivien Shotwell combines the keen observations of a fine writer with a musician's sense of structure and technique. She brings alive the mystery of music from the inside, and the effect is delightful. A remarkable accomplishment."--Thad Carhart, author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank "Vivien Shotwell's elegant, keenly observed debut is as deeply imagined as it is deeply felt. At turns lyrical and dramatic, witty and wise, Vienna Nocturne is both a fascinating portrait of a long-lost world and an introduction to a gorgeous new literary voice."--Jennifer DuBois, author of Cartwheel "Vienna Nocturne is a gorgeous symphony of a novel, the story, the prose, the sweet, sad whole of it both lush and perfectly controlled. Like much great music, it lures us in with the catchy and hummable--an irresistibly glamorous love story--but hides depths beneath and between the melodies. I will never listen to Mozart the same way again."
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     With her debut novel, classically trained singer Shotwell channels real life English-born soprano Anna Storace, a prodigy whose family eventually moves to the continent to further her career. Shotwell takes exuberant liberties with her teenage superstar, from Anna’s voice training, beginning at age 11, by castrato Venanzio Rauzzini, to her early career in Milan and Venice—where the bold teenager embarks on a secret affair with randy “primo buffo” star Francesco Benucci—and her sponsorship by the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II in Vienna. It’s 1783, Wolfgang Mozart is the toast of the town, and when the married composer meets Anna, the attraction is instant and undeniable. Theirs is a lush, passionate love story and, in Shotwell’s capable hands, an astutely contemporary reflection on ambition, theater, and the politics of celebrity. Along the way, Anna will endure an abusive marriage to violinist John Fisher, who’s been banned from Vienna for his brutality. She will also suffer the loss of her infant daughter (conceived with Benucci), and a near-career ending problem with her voice. Shotwell delivers a lyrical, youthful tale of love and loss set in the 18th century, but keeps it crisply modern with a blend of happy and tragic endings. The effort hits all the right notes, even for readers lacking any knowledge of opera.

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     Compared to Nancy Horan's Loving Frank for its depiction of stymied passion and Paula McLain's The Paris Wife for its sense of atmosphere, this book by professional opera singer Shotwell draws on the real-life story of British opera singer Anna Storace, who had a tempestuous affair with Mozart. An Editors' Pick at Day of Dialog.

     Copyright 2013 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     November 15, 2013
     

     The tale of Anna Storace (1765-1817), a child musical prodigy who left England to win the critical hearts of Italian opera goers, begins slowly, but readers who persist will be amply rewarded when Anna and her company arrive in Vienna to bring opera buffa to the court of Emperor Joseph II. Anna's encounter with the incomparable Mozart, who later creates the role of Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro for her, transforms Shotwell's rather dry, explanatory style into something powerful, evocative, and subtle. The narrative hits its stride when Anna meets an impish Mozart in the garden outside the emperor's ballroom; characters gain complexity and depth, and the language soars, with descriptions of music and its composers and performers as riveting as the plot and the sweetly tender love story that pulls at the heartstrings. VERDICT An opera singer herself, Shotwell explores ambitions and rivalries in a city at the center of the musical world. Always at the forefront are the singers devoted to their art. Her fiction debut will appeal to opera aficionados and lovers of historical fiction. [See Prepub Alert, 8/5/13.]--Cynthia Johnson, Cary Memorial Lib., Lexington, MA

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