A Woman of Note, by Carol M. Cram
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Virtuoso pianist Isabette Grüber captivates audiences in the salons and concert halls of early nineteenth-century Vienna. Yet in a profession dominated by men, Isabette longs to compose and play her own music—a secret she keeps from both her lascivious manager and her resentful mother. She meets and loves Amelia Mason, a dazzling American singer with her own secrets, and Josef Hauser, an ambitious young composer. But even they cannot fully comprehend the depths of Isabette’s talent.
Her ambitions come with a price when Isabette embarks on a journey that delicately walks the line between duty and passion. Amid heartbreak and sacrifice, music remains her one constant. With cameos from classical music figures such as Chopin, Schubert, and Berlioz, A Woman of Note is an intricately crafted and fascinating tale about one woman’s struggle to find her soul’s song in a dissonant world.
A Woman of Note, by Carol M. Cram- Amazon Sales Rank: #12849 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-09-08
- Released on: 2015-09-08
- Format: Kindle eBook
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful. Riveting! By Amazon customer Woman of Note transports the reader to the nineteenth century. It vividly portrays Vienna’s coffee houses, elegant salons, and cutthroat world of performing arts. From the first scene where Isabette Grüber appears, flushed and out of her depth, she enchanted me. Isabette is physically plain, overly tall, and a gifted pianist and composer. But she is a prisoner of social convention. Her talent is strictly controlled.Both her mother and her manager ride her coattails. Their livelihoods depend on her and they intend to make sure she delivers. In a world where a women’s options are few, Isabette’s future looks like a bleak life of servitude and repression. And she is only nineteen years old.Enter Amelia Mason, a feisty, confident American girl, with little regard for the stifling protocols of the day. With her comes a small ray of hope for Isabette to find her voice and decide what she wants from life.Men cluster around Amelia and with them comes proximity to the patriarchal power structure.Josef Hauser is one of these men and when he realizes Amelia’s wealthy family will not accept him as her suitor, he turns his attention to Isabette. At first he admires her talent. Naively, Isabette sees Josef as a possible musical collaborator as well as a husband. She marries him hoping to realize her artistic potential. His lukewarm feelings for her deteriorate until he becomes another person who sees her as a meal ticket.The sweeping themes of this novel are: filial duty, the struggle for independence, artistic integrity, forbidden love, betrayal, and artistic fulfillment.I’m not musically inclined but this story brought me right into Isabette’s skin. I felt her fingers over the piano keys. Her passion and her pain are brilliantly told as she plays. Her voice is strong in the novel and her music is even stronger. This book made classical music accessible to me in an effortless, elegant way. It is a must read for anyone who enjoys historical fiction with a sizzle.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. I really enjoyed reading about the music and the various cameos by ... By Julia Simpson A Woman of Note is a compelling story about Isabette, a gifted composer in 19th century Vienna. As in her first novel, The Towers of Tuscany, author Carol Cram weaves in a passion for the arts with the journey of a young woman struggling to find a place for herself in a world dominated by men. The characters are well developed, and even the more antagonistic characters such as Josef and Isabette's mother have motives that are understandable even if the reader doesn't agree with them. Although I'm not a big classical music buff, I really enjoyed reading about the music and the various cameos by famous composers of the time were fun! Isabette's talent and love of music are evident on the page and compel the reader to feel the same way. It's a hard book to put down, definitely a page turner! Highly recommended, and looking forward to Cram's next novel!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful. A Woman of Note By Glenda Griffin Carol Cram has written an enchanting novel on the struggle of a female pianist/ composer in the 1800s, even though the character was fictional the struggle was real. I am thankful for the strong passionate women that proceeded me, and I regret they were subjected to the men's inferiority complex that needed to belittle women to make them feel big. Only true genius can appreciate another genius without prejudice. Thank you Ms. Cram.
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