One autumn evening, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites.
There, in a spine-tingling moment, something unlikely happened: He fell deeply in love with the music, and had to hear more, know more.
So began an epic quest that would unravel three centuries of mystery, intrigue, history, politics and passion.

Part biography, part music history, and part literary mystery, the book follows three strands of an evolving story. The first is a dramatic narrative featuring Bach and a missing manuscript from the eighteenth century; the second is a key discovery by Pablo Casals in Spain and his rise to fame; and the third is Eric Siblin's own discovery of, and infatuation with, The Cello Suites, which takes him to the back streets of ... more