Schubert Bandage
About This Novel
The author, Claire Oppert, is a cellist who was born into a family of doctors in France. She graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music in 1993. She also holds a degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne in Paris and received education in art therapy from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tours in France. Claire Opel has been performing for special groups such as autistic children, elderly people with dementia, and terminally ill patients since the 1990s. She plays classical music, as well as jazz, tango, pop songs, and ethnic music from around the world. She often observed that the sound of the piano could reach the hearts of these patients who often cannot communicate through words and bring them happiness. One day in 2012, Opel encountered a tense scene while waiting for the elevator in a nursing home for the elderly with dementia. Two nurses were about to change the bandage of a patient with a suppurating wound. Out of fear and pain, the patient screamed and began to attack the nurse who approached her. Opel took out her piano and played Schubert's music without thinking. A miracle happened. The old man stopped shouting and the waving arms softened. The nurses were able to successfully change her dressing. They jokingly called the sound of Opel's piano "Schubert's bandage." Inspired by this story, in 2013, Opel, who had just obtained a diploma in art therapy, collaborated with the palliative care department of a public hospital to start the "Schubert Bandage" research project to study the analgesic effect of live music, which attracted the attention of the medical community. This book won the 2021 French Musician Literary Award and has been translated into English, German, Italian, and Japanese and published in many countries.
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