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"Buck up, it's Baroque" - fiction by naraht.

Fandom(s): Hilda Tablet/Classical Composers RPF
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Hilda Tablet/Elsa Strauss, Benjamin Britten/Peter Pears, Hilda Tablet/Imogen Holst
Wordcount | Rating: 15,119 | Teen
Content Notes: 1950s, Banter, Bisexual Character, Canon Queer Character, Canon Queer Relationship, Feminist Themes, Humor, Making Music, Opera, Pederasty, Queer Themes, Women Being Awesome
Summary: Roll over, Beethoven and move over, Benjamin Britten… it's Hilda Tablet, the "eminent twelve-tone composeress." When Hilda and her muse, soprano Elsa Strauss, are special guests at the Aldeburgh Festival, they leave havoc, romantic entanglements and modern music in their wake.
Acknowledgements: Thanks to trascendenza for stepping in at the very last minute and doing a great illustration of Elsa, mid-aria!

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