A Devil to Play: One Man's Year-Long Quest to Master the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument

A charming and deeply funny memoir of musical obsession, A Devil to Play is the story of Jasper Rees, a man who unearths his childhood French horn, and begins a quixotic but obsessively serious challenge: to play a Mozart concerto--alone--for a paying audience within one year's time. It's an endearing, inspiring tale of perseverance and achievement, relayed masterfully, one side-splittingly off-key note at a time.

Author: Jasper Rees
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 12/08/2009
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9780061626623
ISBN10: 0061626627
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Music
- Music | Musical Instruments | Brass