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 A recurring element throughout the plot is the pair's performance of [[Beethoven's Piano Trio Opus 1]] No.3, which they first perform in their college days.
-==Inspiration==
+Seth together with [[Philippe Honoré (violinist)|Philippe Honoré]] marketed a double CD of the music mentioned in ''An Equal Music'', performed by Honoré.<ref name="amazonemcd">{{citation |url=https://www.amazon.com/Vikram-Seth-Johann-Sebastian-Bach/dp/B00003OO0L |title=Amazon: An Equal Music (CD) |publisher=[[Amazon.com]]}}.</ref>
 ==Reception==
-The book was especially well received by musical fans, who noted the accuracy of Seth's descriptions of music.
+The book was especially well received by musical fans, who noted the accuracy of Seth's descriptions of music.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}
 [[Paolo Isotta]], one of Italy's most significant music critics, wrote in the influential newspaper ''[[Il Corriere della Sera]]'' of the Italian translation that no European writer had ever shown such a knowledge of [[European classical music]], nor had any European novel before managed to convey the psychology, the technical abilities, even the human potentialities of those who practise music for a living.<ref name="albertazzi">{{citation |periodical=European Review |date=20 January 2005|volume=13 |pages=103–113 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/S1062798705000104 |url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=276618 |first=Silvia |last=Albertazzi |title=An equal music, an alien world: postcolonial literature and the representation of European culture}}.</ref>

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{{Infobox book
| name = An Equal Music
| image = BroadwayBooks ImprintofRandomHouse 1999 VikramSeth AnEqualMusic FirstEdition Cover.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption = First edition cover
| author = [[Vikram Seth]]
| country = [[United Kingdom]]
| language = English
| cover_artist =
| series =
| genre = Fiction
| publisher = Phoenix House
| release_date = 8 April 1999
| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)
| pages = 383 pages (first edition, hardcover), 400 pages (hardcover edition) & 400 pages (paperback edition)
| isbn = 1-86159-117-9 |isbn_note= (first edition, hardcover), ({{ISBN|0-7679-0291-2}} (hardcover edition) & {{ISBN|0-375-70924-X}} (paperback edition)
| oclc= 41381950
| preceded_by =
| followed_by =
}}
'''''An Equal Music''''' (1999) is a novel by [[Vikram Seth]].

==Plot==
The plot concerns Michael, a professional [[violin]]ist, who never forgot his love for Julia, a [[pianist]] he met as a student in Vienna. They meet again after a decade, and conduct a secret affair, though she is married and has one child. Their musical careers are affected by this affair and the knowledge that Julia is going [[deafness|deaf]].

A recurring element throughout the plot is the pair's performance of [[Beethoven's Piano Trio Opus 1]] No.3, which they first perform in their college days.

==Inspiration==

Seth credits his then-partner, the French violinist [[Philippe Honoré (violinist)|Philippe Honoré]], as inspiring him with the idea for ''An Equal Music'' in an acrostic [[Onegin stanza]] on Honoré's name in the epigraph:

<blockquote>
: Perhaps this could have stayed unstated.
: Had our words turned to other things
: In the grey park, the rain abated,
: Life would have quickened other strings.
: I list your gifts in this creation:
: Pen, paper, ink and inspiration,
: Peace to the heart with touch or word,
: Ease to the soul with note and chord.

: How did that walk, those winter hours,
: Occasion this? No lightning came;
: Nor did I sense, when touched by flame,
: Our story lit with borrowed powers –
: Rather, by what our spirits burned,
: Embered in words, to us returned.<ref name="amazoneqmus">{{citation |url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000F3T4HC |accessdate=2007-09-05 |title=Amazon: An Equal Music |publisher=[[Amazon.com]]}}.</ref></blockquote>

Seth together with Philippe Honoré marketed a double CD of the music mentioned in ''An Equal Music'', performed by Honoré.<ref name="amazonemcd">{{citation |url=https://www.amazon.com/Vikram-Seth-Johann-Sebastian-Bach/dp/B00003OO0L |title=Amazon: An Equal Music (CD) |publisher=[[Amazon.com]]}}.</ref>

==Reception==
The book was especially well received by musical fans, who noted the accuracy of Seth's descriptions of music.

[[Paolo Isotta]], one of Italy's most significant music critics, wrote in the influential newspaper ''[[Il Corriere della Sera]]'' of the Italian translation that no European writer had ever shown such a knowledge of [[European classical music]], nor had any European novel before managed to convey the psychology, the technical abilities, even the human potentialities of those who practise music for a living.<ref name="albertazzi">{{citation |periodical=European Review |date=20 January 2005|volume=13 |pages=103–113 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/S1062798705000104 |url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=276618 |first=Silvia |last=Albertazzi |title=An equal music, an alien world: postcolonial literature and the representation of European culture}}.</ref>

==Works referenced==
Several musical works figure prominently in ''An Equal Music''. Among these are the [[Trout Quintet]] by [[Franz Schubert]], the [[String Quintet, Op. 104 (Beethoven)|String Quintet in C minor]] by [[Ludwig van Beethoven]], and ''[[The Lark Ascending (Vaughan Williams)|The Lark Ascending]]'' by [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]].

==Notes==

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[[Category:1999 British novels]]
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[[Category:Novels about music]]

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