One of the main works of the famous French writer George Sand, “The Musicians’ Guild”, is now finally available in German! A novel that provides fascinating insights into the world of French bagpipers and hurdy-gurdy players in the mid-19th century.<\/p>\n
The world-famous writer George Sand spent a large part of her life in Nohant, a small town in Berry, France. Although most of her novels have been translated into German, one of her major works, of all things, the novel “Les Ma\u00eetres Sonneurs,” published in 1853, has not been available in German until now.<\/p>\n
During research, the editor Christoph Pelgen found a German translation of “Die Musikanten-Zunft” by Claire von Gl\u00fcmer from 1856, which is extremely successful, knowledgeable and coherent and which we have reproduced unchanged in this edition. The charming and readable language of Gl\u00fcmers translation perfectly underlines the atmosphere and fascination of the novel.<\/p>\n
The novel “The Musicians’ Guild” about childhood friends Joseph, Steffen and Br\u00fclette is set in rural Berry in the late 18th century. George Sand tells of everyday rural life in central France, of the code of honor of muleteers and lumberjacks, of rival musicians, and of her protagonists’ difficult search for happiness and their place in this world. The characters in the narrative, the landscape, the description of everyday life, and the detailed descriptions of music, dance festivals, travel, etc., take us back to an era that has been lost forever.<\/p>\n
“People there still believe in all seriousness what is still sometimes believed here, The original title of this book, “The Musicians’ Guild”, was the inspiration for one of the most important festivals for traditional bagpipe and hurdy-gurdy music in central France in the 20th century: The “Rencontres internationales des luthiers et ma\u00eetres sonneurs”, held just a few kilometers from Nohant in St. Chartier since 1976 and developed into a Mecca for musicians, instrument makers and dancers. There the music and the old instruments were rediscovered and developed, about which George Sand reports so wonderfully in this novel.<\/p>\n A detailed appendix with explanations and notes completes this edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Novel by George Sand from 1853, German by Claire von Gl\u00fcmer, 1856, Edited by Christoph Pelgen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[537],"product_tag":[477,507,472],"class_list":{"0":"post-3438","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-novels","7":"product_tag-bourree-en","8":"product_tag-minstrels","9":"product_tag-sheet-music-for-bal-folk","10":"pa_b035_a01_b037-george-sand-en","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"taxable","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spielleute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spielleute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spielleute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spielleute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spielleute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spielleute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spielleute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spielleute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spielleute.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/em>namely that you have to pledge your soul to the devil if you want to become a musician,
\n<\/em>and that Satan will come one day, snatch the bagpipe out of the musician’s hands,
\n<\/em>smashes it on his back and then forces him to do himself harm.”<\/em><\/p>\n