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The Disciple

Mikhaiïl Rudy

Release date : 18/04/2024

Mikhail Rudy, a pianist of international renown, of both Russian and Ukrainian origin, tells the story of a fusional friendship between a young piano prodigy and his teacher at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow at the troubled time of the fall of the Soviet regime.

September 1988. Just promoted to piano teacher at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Konstantin Toumanov welcomes François, a young French virtuoso, as his student. He immediately detects in him an authentic genius as well as a complex and tormented personality. He prepares him for the Rachmaninov competition, the musical... September 1988. Just promoted to piano teacher at the prestigious Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Konstantin Toumanov welcomes François, a young French virtuoso, as his student. He immediately detects in him an authentic genius as well as a complex and tormented personality. He prepares him for the Rachmaninov competition, the musical event of the season where the hopes of the best school in the world compete, but the young prodigy is difficult to handle: he despises the public, emancipates himself from the rules and conventions, and leads a disorderly life in which he drags his mentor. Who, of Konstantin or François, is the disciple of the other?

This novel of a fusional friendship takes the reader to the heart of Moscow, to Riga in Latvia, to Crimea, but also to Italy and Provence, at a time of great upheavals with the collapse of the USSR, the perestroika, the betrayed hopes of a Russia freed from its demons. And always the music, “music above all else”, as Verlaine said.

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