Book Description
Self-revelations of tormented great composer; musical life in Paris, Wagner and other contemporaries, musical opinions, much more. 11 plates.
Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 1932-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780486215631
Self-revelations of tormented great composer; musical life in Paris, Wagner and other contemporaries, musical opinions, much more. 11 plates.
Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 26,89 MB
Release : 1994-06-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253311641
A Travers Chants is the collection of writings selected from his thirty-odd years of musical journalism. These essays cover a wide spectrum of intellectual inquiry: Beethoven's nine symphonies and his opera, Fidelio; Wagner and the partisans of the "Music of the Future"; Berlioz's idols - Gluck, Weber, and Mozart. There is an eloquent plea to stop the constant rise in concert pitch (an issue still discussed today), a serious piece on the place of music in church, and a humorous and imaginative account of musical customs in China.
Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Composers
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Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1545748896
French composer Hector Berlioz believed in love at first sight. When he was 23, he attended a performance of Shakespeare s play Hamlet and fell head over heels in love with Harriet Smithson, an English actress who had a leading role. Harriet didn t show any interest in him. She ignored his letters. When he tried to meet her backstage, she ordered the guard to throw him out.Berlioz was hurt and angry. He wanted revenge. He got it by murdering Harriet �musically. She inspired Symphonie fantastique, his most famous work. The hero kills his beloved, is executed for the crime, and the symphony ends with a bizarre dance of ghosts, goblins, and other monsters.
Author : D. Kern Holoman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 47,99 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674067783
A captivating and sumptuously illustrated biography, Berlioz is not only a complete account of the Romantic era composer, but also an acute analysis of his compositions and a description of his work as a conductor and critic. 139 halftones, 3 maps, 160 musical examples.
Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 1999-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0226043746
In this delightful and now classic narrative, written by the brilliant composer and critic Hector Berlioz, readers are made privy to 25 highly entertaining evenings with a fascinating group of distracted performers.
Author : Jeffrey Alan Langford
Publisher : New York : Garland
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Composers
ISBN :
A selective, annotated bibliography comprising 900 of the most significant pieces of Berlioz research and criticism that have appeared. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2021-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The following book is a unique look into what conducting an orchestra is like from the perspective of a composer and conductor of the French Romantic era, Hector Berlioz. Though he only met occasional success in France as a composer, Berlioz was highly regarded in Germany, Britain, and Russia both as a composer and as a conductor.
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Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
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Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252069420
A daring composer in his own right, Hector Berlioz made a considerable reputation and a modest living for himself writing about music. This compact volume gathers brief, pithy essays Berlioz wrote on Beethoven's nine symphonies, his opera, Fidelio, and his piano sonatas and trios. Berlioz vividly depicts the salient features of the music with observations that are acute and passionate, as valuable for musicians as for amateurs. Beyond its astute commentary on the music, however, Berlioz's book offers a rare firsthand look at the reception and reputation accorded Beethoven's music in the decades following his death. Berlioz transcribes the comments of amateurs leaving the conservatoire after a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and provides a mocking glimpse of the French appreciation of the great German composer: What stands in the way of the music of 'Fidelio' as regards the Parisian public is ... the great disdain of the composer for sonorous effects which are not justified. He addresses Beethoven's skillful use of the orchestra as an instrument of drama and the general disapprobation that greeted this approach. He also includes a satirical piece on the fad of calling up the spirit of a composer and transcribing new, posthumous compositions. Berlioz's essays testify to the tumult caused by Beethoven's music in his time and offer ways to approach the music that remain enlightening and fresh.