"La sonata de Vinteuil", from fiction to reality

Was Marcel Proust trying to cover his tracks when, in April 1918, he gave the future academician Jacques de Lacretelle some leads as to the sources of his famous Vinteuil sonata? In any case, by summoning out of the blue the first

by Saint-Saëns or that of Franck, the

by Fauré, the

by Beethoven or excerpts from

and

, the author only further aroused the curiosity of music lovers, musicians and all lovers of

.

As the 150th anniversary of the writer's birth draws to a close (and we are heading towards the centenary of his death in 2022), a record and a Parisian show bear witness, with as much intelligence as sensitivity. , of this fascination that lasts.

Imaginary encounter

In stores on October 29, pianist Shani Diluka's latest album thus imagines a daring rapprochement between Proust's intimate friend, Reynaldo Hahn, whose

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