A Remarkable Story of Courage and Friendship in WW II "We were the dreamers of dreams, the singers of songs. We were the music makers. We would not hear nor play nor love without each other. This is a prelude to our experience, an overture to who we were and how we arrived on the shores of friends
While the music played: a remarkable story of courage and friendship in WWII
β Scribed by Nathaniel Lande
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 444 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Ashland;OR
- ISBN
- 1982632348
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β¦ Synopsis
"We were the dreamers of dreams, the singers of songs. We were the music makers. We would not hear nor play nor love without each other. This is a prelude to our experience, an overture to who we were and how we arrived on the shores of friendship."
Beginning in 1939 prewar Prague, While the Music Played focuses on the story of young Max Mueller, a curious bright romantic--a budding musician, piano tuner, and nascent journalist. Max is on the cusp of adolescence when the Nazi influence invades Prague's tolerant spirit with alarming speed as he struggles to understand the changing world around him. When his father, noted German conductor Viktor Mueller, is conscripted into the German army and finds himself increasingly promoting the Nazi message, Viktor's best friend, noted Czech composer Hans KrΓ‘sa, protests the occupation in every way he can. As everyone Max loves is compromised by intolerable conditions, he becomes increasingly isolated, and is forced to find his own...
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