Memoirs of Hector Berlioz
Title | Memoirs of Hector Berlioz PDF eBook |
Author | Hector Berlioz |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 912 |
Release | 1932-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780486215631 |
Self-revelations of tormented great composer; musical life in Paris, Wagner and other contemporaries, musical opinions, much more. 11 plates.
The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz
Title | The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz PDF eBook |
Author | Hector Berlioz |
Publisher | Everyman's Library |
Pages | 760 |
Release | 2002-03-19 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Translator and editor David Cairns has completely revised the text of this memoir of Hector Berlioz. The extensive notes that accompany the text have been updated to reflect the results of recent research
The Life of Hector Berlioz, as Written by Himself in His Letters and Memoirs
Title | The Life of Hector Berlioz, as Written by Himself in His Letters and Memoirs PDF eBook |
Author | Hector Berlioz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1923 |
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The Life of Hector Berlioz
Title | The Life of Hector Berlioz PDF eBook |
Author | Hector Berlioz |
Publisher | London : J.M. Dent ; New York : E.P. Dutton |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Musicians |
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Berlioz and His Century
Title | Berlioz and His Century PDF eBook |
Author | Jacques Barzun |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1982-08-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780226038612 |
In this abridgment of his monumental study, Berlioz and the Romantic Century, Jacques Barzun recounts the events and extraordinary achievements of the great composer's life against the background of the romantic era. As the author eloquently demonstrates, Berloiz was an archetype whose destiny was the story of an age, the incarnation of an artistic style and a historical spirit. "In order to understand the nineteenth century, it is essential to understand Berlioz," notes W. H. Auden, "and in order to understand Berlioz, it is essential to read Professor Barzun."
Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865
Title | Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865 PDF eBook |
Author | Hector Berlioz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 533 |
Release | 1992-10-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780781294782 |
Bonded Leather binding
The Life of Berlioz
Title | The Life of Berlioz PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Bloom |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1998-11-19 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780521485487 |
The Life of Berlioz situates the celebrated French musician in the vibrant and highly politicized musical culture of the periods of the Bourbon Restoration, July Monarchy, Second Republic, and Second Empire in which he lived and worked as composer, conductor, concert manager, and writer. The author of the Symphonie fantastique was indeed possessed of a fertile and fantastical imagination; but the common image of Berlioz as a misunderstood and mistreated genius obscures both the solidity of his work as a musical architect and the reality of his position as one sometimes favored by those in power. Berlioz is the quintessential romantic composer by dint of the conspicuous intermingling of art and life that marks his musical and literary output. Studying this away from the subjective sentimentality that can still mar studies of the composer in France, serves only to enhance the uncommon radiance of his music and uncommon esprit of his art.