Unfinished Symphonies; Voices From the Beyond

New York: William Morrow and Company, 1971. Octavo with sky blue boards in black/blue/white jacket; pictorial endpapers; deckle edges; xi, 192 pages; 21.5 cm Very good (-) jacket with a teeny chip at head of spine, minuscule closed tear to front and age-tanning to rear; a very good copy overall, clean and tight. Hardcover.

Music and the afterlife collide in the tale of Rosemary Brown. A beautiful object housing a curious tale. "Unfinished Symphonies is the remarkable first-person story of a widowed London housewife who is visited regularly by the spirits of Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin Debussy, Schumann, Bach, Rachmaninov, and Brahms, who talk to her and guide her hands to play and write in manuscript form music far beyond her own skills as a musician. Rosemary Brown has been investigated by experts, interviewed by Leonard Bernstein and has been the subject of many news articles, but no one has found any indication of fraud." --Jacket. Contents: The beginning. Why me?. The composer's plan. Liszt. Life after death. Chopin. The composers. Healing. The evidence.// music, paranormal, life after death, automatic writing, spirit writing, composer, classical music