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{{Infobox book<br />
| name = An Equal Music<br />
| image = BroadwayBooks ImprintofRandomHouse 1999 VikramSeth AnEqualMusic FirstEdition Cover.jpg<br />
| image_size = 200px<br />
| caption = First edition cover<br />
| author = [[Vikram Seth]]<br />
| country = [[United Kingdom]]<br />
| language = English<br />
| cover_artist = <br />
| series =<br />
| genre = Fiction<br />
| publisher = Phoenix House<br />
| release_date = 8 April 1999<br />
| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)<br />
| pages = 383 pages (first edition, hardcover), 400 pages (hardcover edition) & 400 pages (paperback edition)<br />
| isbn = 1-86159-117-9 |isbn_note= (first edition, hardcover), ({{ISBN|0-7679-0291-2}} (hardcover edition) & {{ISBN|0-375-70924-X}} (paperback edition)<br />
| oclc= 41381950<br />
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'''''An Equal Music''''' (1999) is a novel by [[Vikram Seth]].<br />
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==Plot==<br />
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]].<br />
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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.<br />
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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><br />
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==Reception==<br />
The book was especially well received by musical fans, who noted the accuracy of Seth's descriptions of music.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}<br />
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[[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><br />
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==Works referenced==<br />
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]].<br />
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