Berlioz : scenes from the life and work
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Berlioz : scenes from the life and work
（Eastman studies in music）
University of Rochester Press, 2008
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Includes bibliographical reference and index
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New studies of the great French composer by Jacques Barzun, David Cairns, Joel-Marie Fauquet, Hugh Macdonald, Julian Rushton, and other prominent experts.
These twelve essays bring new breadth and depth to our knowledge of the life and work of the composer of the Symphonie fantastique. A distinguished international array of scholars here treat such matters as Berlioz's "aesthetics" and what it means to write about the meaning of his music; the political implications of his fiction and the affinities of his projects as composer and as critic; what the Germans thought of his work before his travels in Germany and what the English made of him when he visited their capital city; what he seems to have written immediately after encountering Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (a surprise), and where he profited from Beethoven in what later became Romeo et Juliette. The volume closes with two reflective essays on Berlioz's literary masterpiece, the Memoires.
Contributors: Lord Aberdare (Alastair Bruce), Jean-Pierre Bartoli, JacquesBarzun, Peter Bloom, David Cairns, Gunther Braam, Gerard Conde, Pepijn van Doesburg, Joel-Marie Fauquet, Frank Heidlberger, Hugh Macdonald, and Julian Rushton
Peter Bloom (Smith College) is author of The Life of Berlioz (1998) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz (2000).
Table of Contents
Introduction: Berlioz in the Aftermath of the Bicentenary - Peter Bloom
The Music in the Music of Berlioz - Jacques Barzun
Artistic Religiosity: Berlioz Between the Te Deum and L'Enfance du Christ - Frank Heidlberger
Euphonia and the Utopia of the Orchestra as Society - Joel-Marie Fauquet
Berlioz and the Mezzo-Soprano - Julian Rushton
Berlioz as Composer-Critic - Gerard Conde
A Certain Hector Berlioz: News in Germany of Berlioz in France - Gunther Braam
Berlioz's Lost Romeo et Juliette - Hugh Macdonald
Beethoven, Shakespeare, and Berlioz's Scene d'amour - Jean-Pierre Bartoli
Germany at First - Pepijn van Doesburg
England and Berlioz - Alastair Bruce
Berlioz Writing the Life of Berlioz - Peter Bloom
Berlioz: Autobiography, Biography - David Cairns
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