Piano Quintet

by Edward Sackville-West

311 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1925

About the author

Edward Charles Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville was a British music critic, novelist and, in his last years, a member of the House of Lords.

Reviews

[Brianne]

Piano Quintet is the story about a touring piano quintet, five people that must navigate their way around strange cities and strange circumstances that result from the always being together. They take in Paris, parts of Germany, and Vienna all while navigating their ways through strange sights and strange people, especially Imogen who finds she is in love with Aurelian, but his love is as foreign as the cities they are in, and she finds, at times, he is more trouble than he’s worth.
It is a pleasant story. The characters were hard to grasp in the beginning as there are five of them thrust at you all at once, and sometimes his use of the language makes his concepts and character feelings unclear. But everything becomes translucent at the end, and all his subtle references reveal themselves.