Simon Silber - Works for Solo Piano (Paperback, New Ed)

‘ “Like so many geniuses, Silber–”
‘I put down the pen and picked up the fork again, not ambidextrous enough to write and eat at the same time. Was he a genius, or just a nut?’

Norm Fayrewether knew the composer Simon Silber for little more than a year, but it was long enough to get to hate him. Destitute and down-and-out, Fayrewether was uniquely placed to document Silber’s unrecognizable ‘genius’ – Silber paid him money to write his biography – and threw himself into the task like a man dispossessed.

The volume you hold in your hand is Fayrewether’s life of Silber as told through liner notes accompanying a selection of the man’s music. This extraordinary oeuvre – including a daylong piano sonata and an etude composed on a telephone keypad – is the key to Silber’s life. It is also Fayrewether’s revenge on the man who tormented him …

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