Sigelmanns Fuga

A family saga spanning four centuries. A novel about music, faith, and survival in a world turned upside down.

When Petra Siglmann, a musicologist from Innsbruck, opens an old tobacco box, she has no idea that she is about to embark on a journey into her own past. What at first appears to be a harmless family heirloom turns out to be the key to a story that takes her back to 16th-century Europe—a time of the plague, religious wars, and political upheaval.

Christian Much Returns to Goin’ Home. Or: A New Beginning to Wolke Verlag with his second novel, telling the story of the Sigelmann family as a literary fugue: voices engage in dialogue with one another, motifs recur, and time periods overlap, linking past and present into a single, sweeping narrative whole. In the process, fictional characters encounter historical figures whose fates are closely intertwined with the beginnings of modern instrumental music.

In this novel, music is far more than just a theme. It becomes the language of memory, an expression of hope and humanity in an era marked by violence, epidemics, and religious fanaticism. With great historical accuracy and narrative power, Christian Much paints a panorama of the early modern era that is as gripping as it is moving.

Sigelmann’s *Fuga* combines historical research with literary imagination to create an extraordinary novel about origins, identity, and the power of music—a book for anyone who loves epic narratives and European cultural history.

Click here to read the accompanying essay, “Music and Movement,” in our Caprices series.

The book will be released on October 15 and is available for pre-order now!