“Classical Music is fun and powerful”: Dan Brown

When the American writer and composer Dan Brown (New Hampshire, 1964) He finished his studies on creative music and writing, I think the composition would be a successful path. He dreamed of entering a group and achieving some popularity, but this was not what happened.

She went to Los Angeles, got a record contract and set a pop album, but when he appeared, she had barely sold 12 copies. Nine may have been bought by my mother, it was a resounding failure. I decided to write novels, because it was not good enough as a composer. ” Da Vinci icon Y Angels and demonsWhich sold more than 234 million copies.

This is how his first book came, Digital castle, He was delivered to the editors and was celebrated through his writings, but he only sold a handful of copies and the specter of the failure that was returned.

This is how he continued with a few novels – among the novels it was Angels and demonsInitially, they did not achieve commercial success – until it arrived Da Vinci icon. “I remember a week before it was published, I opened the manuscript, read it and said:” If this does not work … I will not write anymore. “But success came and changed everything.

Twenty years later, with the sale of thousands of copies and many cinematic modifications, Dan Brown admits that he is silent with music and would like to do more music music for children, such as children, such as Wild symphonyWhich was just offered at the Palace of Fine Arts.

And that music shows her in an interview with her mother, when she was three years old and helped her pass the pages of the result in the church members. “My mother was a professionalist and father of the singer, so we had no TV, movies or anything, and for this reason my first memories remind me of my mother’s pages.”

At what age did you learn to play the piano? “My mother taught me to play the piano at the age of three, but I didn’t like it. I had to take the lessons. She told me that she would continue to take lessons until she was ten years old, then I left her. When she turned her, she stopped, but after three years she resumed it.
child. “

Why didn’t you have piano lessons? “Because it was important. When my mother said I touched, I did not want, and when I suggested that I did not, I wanted, but since I loved that classic, like Beethoven, Chopin and Carl Orf.”

Did you write any book in your childhood? “When I was six years old, I wrote my first story. Well, I dictated her to my mother; I made the drawings and linked, she was called Giraffe, pig and pants in fire. I do not know where the idea arose, but it is a book I keep in my library and I have next to it Da Vinci icon.

And his first piece of music? “Perhaps at the age of six. I liked the creation of music more than her reading. It was children’s music, but my creative flow. Music and literature were created jointly. I think writing a novel and writing a symphony is a similar thing, because in both cases you need rhythm, dynamism and topics.”

Dan Brown expresses his concern that the concert halls are full of 60 and 80 years, as he noticed when visiting a Boston Symphony. “I think the orchestra will soon have problems finding a year and that this new generation of children discover that classic music is funny and strong and can make you happy.”

What music listens to writing? “Nothing, just silence. I tried classic music, sea waves, white noise, but what is better for me is absolute silence.”

Have you thought about writing any opera? “I thought about it, but I haven’t had a time yet. One day I will write an opera about love.”

Finally, the author talks a little about his next novel, The last secret, This will be sold in September. “It took me for six years to write it, which is, to a large extent, the most ambitious book and with the most complex plot that I tried to write.”

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