The Blind Musician: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Blind Musician, credited to Vladimir Korolenko, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Blind Musician by Vladimir Korolenko. (Translated by Aline Delano.) Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. In this sketch, called by Korolenko “a psychological study,” the author has attempted to analyze the inner life of the blind. He has undertaken to lay before the reader not only the psychological processes in the mind of the blind, but their suffering from the lack of sight as well, uncomplicated by any untoward circumstances. To accomplish this he has placed his hero in most favorable, nay, almost exceptional conditions. The subjects for this study are a blind girl, whom the author had known as a child; a boy, a pupil of his, who was gradually losing his sight; and a professional musician, blind from his birth, intellectually gifted, scholarly, and refined. (from the preface by the translator, Aline Delano)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Blind Musician
• Author credits: Vladimir Korolenko
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 8
• Listed recording duration: 3:53:49

Catalogue topics

• music
• blindness
• etude

Track guide

1. 01 - The Blind Infant. The Family — 41:44
2. 02 - The Sources of Musical Feeling. The Blind Boy and the Melody — 42:19
3. 03 - The First Friendship — 34:26
4. 04 - Blindness. Vague Questions — 16:26
5. 05 - Love — 46:53
6. 06 - The Crisis. An Attempt at Synthesis — 32:52
7. 07 - Intuition — 11:39
8. 08 - Epilogue — 7:30

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