Most days Grace retired to her room, her only comfort being music which allowed her to retreat into a world beyond the frantic London of increasing population, traffic, and noise. Marcel’s tragic death at sea had left her bereft and riddled with guilt. Allowing herself to love him had sealed his fate as surely as if she had wielded a knife. She wished that the crystal had killed her, swiftly, brutally, instead of sentencing her to an endless life of agony.
When she wanted to feed her melancholy, Mozart’s Piano Sonata in C Minor with its sense of tragedy in the final movement fulfilled her need for drama. When she could not sleep, fighting yet desiring the dreams of Marcel’s embrace, Bach’s Goldberg Variations and its soothing Aria healed her exhausted spirit.
Mozart’s Piano Sonata in C M
