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Maxime Provost
A little-known early 20th-century author remembered for My Austrian Love, a wartime-era autobiographical tale about a young English composer in Vienna. Very little confirmed biographical information survives, which gives the book an added sense of mystery.
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About the author
Maxime Provost is credited as the author of My Austrian Love: The History of the Adventures of an English Composer in Vienna, Written in the Trenches by Himself. The book has been preserved through library and reprint catalogs, and it is also listed by Project Gutenberg.
Reliable biographical details about Provost are scarce. From the surviving publication record, he appears to be associated mainly with this single autobiographical work, which presents the experiences of an English composer in Vienna around the outbreak of the First World War.
Because so little could be firmly confirmed from readily available sources, it is best to treat Provost as an obscure author whose reputation rests on this one unusual memoir-like narrative rather than on a well-documented public life.