The Harp King of the North: The Enigmatic Life of Antoine Edouard Pratté Antoine Edouard Pratté remains one of the most captivating, yet curiously shadowed, figures of the nineteenth-century Romantic era. Born in 1796 in the Bohemian village of Haida, his origins were far removed from the refined concert halls of Stockholm and beyond. He was born into a world of traveling spectacle, the son of a renowned marionette master, Georg Anton Brát. This childhood, spent amidst the mechanical wonders of puppet theaters and the flickering lights of traveling shows, instilled in him a profound sense of…