Composer, pianist and musicologist, Karol Beffa was elected composer of the year at the Victoires de la Musique Classique. In 2016, he won the High School Composers Grand Prize. A historian of literature and ideas at the CNRS, Guillaume Métayer is also a poet and literary translator.
A big sister and her little brother set out to discover masterpieces of classical music and their composers… stories created by Karol Beffa and Guillaume Métayer and illustrated by Odilon Thorel.
In The Moonlight Ballthe two children meet Beethoven.
“For months Sol and Rémi have been dreaming of the masked ball that Aunt Élise will give in her mansion. They are already imagining the velvets and silks, the dances and the laughter of all these characters from the past, bathed in moonlight. Nothing to see with the lessons of Mr. Devic, their teacher, who keeps their ears busy with that pesky Beethoven! But what exactly is so brilliant about him?
Created by classical music enthusiasts, the Sol & Rémi collection offers joyful adventures to read alone or accompanied. Each volume invites you to discover the work of a great composer in a new way through an illustrated fiction, followed by a documentary section accessible to children.
By scanning the QR code at the end of the book, the reader will be able to access streaming playlists, imagined by the authors and experts of Universal Music, in connection with the book. The child will thus be able to prolong the pleasure of reading through a playful and original musical exploration.
To be read accompanied from 6 years old and alone from 8 years old. (Presentation of Seghers editions)
In The Mysterious Bolero, the two children meet Maurice Ravel.
“Nothing would have happened if their balloon had not landed on the other side of the wall, at this strange stranger. “Nobody must disturb the master, threatens a surly governess, he is working on his bolero.” A bolero? But what the hell is it? A chair? A hat? Devoured by curiosity, Sol and Rémi decide to investigate…
Created by classical music enthusiasts, the Sol & Rémi collection offers joyful adventures to read alone or accompanied. Each volume invites you to discover the work of a great composer in a new way through an illustrated fiction, followed by a documentary section accessible to children.
By scanning the QR code at the end of the book, the reader will be able to access streaming playlists, imagined by the authors and experts of Universal Music, in connection with the book. The child will thus be able to prolong the pleasure of reading through a playful and original musical exploration.
To be read accompanied from 6 years old and alone from 8 years old. (Presentation of Seghers editions)