Guliver's Travels

I'm reading Guliver's Travels 1726, that is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.

I got this book as a gift from my university literature professor, Adriana Silene. And because it, that is very special for me.

I aways heard about this story, but I never had the opportunity to read.

''This may perhaps pass with the reader, rather for an European or English story, than for one of a contry so remote. But he may please to consider, that the caprices of womankind are not limited by any cliamte or nation; and they are much more uniform than can be easily imagined'' - Jonathan Swift

''Softening marble for pillows'' - Jonathan Swift

''Curb  the petulancy of the young, and correct the positiveness of the old.'' - Jonathan Swift

But what I couldn't imagine is that the work has a music inspired.

In 1728 the Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann composed a 5-movement suite for two violins based on Swift's book. Telemann's piece is commonly known as Gulliver's Travels, and depicts the Lilliputians and the Brobdingnagians particularly vividly through rhythms and tempos. The piece is part of Telemann's Der getreue Musik-meister (The Steadfast Music Teacher).

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