One evening while being punished by their parents, Sol and Remi, brother and sister, 5 and 8 years old, are bored in their attic: One sulks while looking at the full moon through the bull’s eye, while the other, determined to have fun, opens old worn trunks… When Sol finds the ball gown of an illustrious countess and Remi grabs a tails suit, they suddenly find themselves projected to the court of Vienna, surrounded by ghosts and notably the most stubborn of them all: Beethoven himself…
Odilon Thorel graduated from the School of Architecture of Normandy in 2013. He has worked in various agencies, Rouen and Parisian, while developing illustration under the pseudonym Pedrov.
In 2018 he illustrated his first album, Sissi, aussi libre que le vent, by Sylvie Baussier and Jean des Cars published by Perrin and Gründ. This will be followed by Les saisons et Les renards de Londres written by Eugène Green at the École des loisirs editions in 2019 and 2021.
Karol Beffa is a composer, pianist and academic. He graduated first in his class at the ENS, has a degree in music education and a doctorate in musicology, and has been a lecturer at the ENS since 2004.
Research director at the CNRS, Guillaume Métayer is a writer, poet and literary translator, particularly of German and Hungarian poetry.
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