Of Wizards and Angels

A supernatural fantasy

by Charles Louis Braai


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 2/16/2011

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 672
ISBN : 9781426954412
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : N/A
Page Count : 672
ISBN : 9781426954429

About the Book

“In the late seventeen hundreds and early eighteen hundreds, I was Beethoven’s prized pupil, can believe it. Unfortunately I had to quit him for reasons not concerning music. It was really quite silly. I was supposed to be protecting my good name. You see, it was rumored that the maestro, Beethoven, was a womanizer and while conducting orchestras he also conducted many affairs with his young female students. In those times, although mostly behind their backs, some men and even some women were referred to as libertines. Of course any man as emotional as Beethoven had to be romantically exotic but I didn’t consider him a libertine; it was just that young women threw themselves at him and he used the opportunities. “The saddest part was this remarkable man was almost deaf; in later years he became almost completely and totally deaf. Yet this man was such a genius, just by reading the written notes, he could hear the music inside his head. Often, he laid his hands on the piano as I played. At times, when I played, particularly when we were alone, after he’d closed the piano, thus containing the sound, he’d than lay his head down on the piano; by doing so, with his temple held tightly on the lid, it enabled him to hear it fully the way it was meant to be heard. This was done only prudently and only witnessed by certain people, as he was embarrassed and at first, not wanting to admit being deaf. No matter how much relief I’d get by forgetting the music I never would forget it on purpose. That music is a part of me, more so than my arms and limbs even; the music is more part of me than my perceived beauty or my Immortality.


About the Author

The author is 75 years old and retired. He has traveled all over the Rocky Mountains and has been on safari in Africa twice. He dove to a ship while in Acapulco. His travels left him with many interesting life experiences. So now with nothing to do with his time, he figured – what the heck; let’s write a novel.