The Fermata

By E.T.A. Hoffmann

A wistful reverie on youth, music, and first love, this tender tale gazes into an old painting and finds there two Italian singers and the green summer that changed a young man forever.

Gathered into The Serapion Brethren, The Fermata (Die Fermate) sees the composer Theodor, prompted by a picture of two singing sisters, recall his infatuated apprenticeship among travelling performers. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 - 1822), the German Romantic jurist, composer, and critic, pours his own love of the operatic voice into a bittersweet story of longing, comedy, and the passing of youth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144746558X
• ISBN13: 9781447465584
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Read & Co. Classics
• Length: 36 Pages
• Weight: 0.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"