| Description |
2 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
20. Interchapter: memoirs of Art and Life ; England, Germany, and Russia : 21. Victorian London: Evenings with the orchestra ; 22. Religious History: The infant Christ ; 23. Virgilian music drama: The Trojans ; 24. Esthetes abroad: Wagner, Liszt, and the princess ; 25. Prospero's farewell: Beatrice and Benedict ; 26. Empire and industry: Les grotesques ; 27. Holy Russia and giddy France: 33 melodies ; 28. Memory's end |
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France : 1. Time, Place, Persons ; 2. Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne ; 3. Opera and conservatoire ; 4. Faustian man ; 5. Revolution in July ; 6. Reveries and passions: Symphonie fantastique ; 7. Interchapter: Program music and the unicorn |
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Germany : 15. Music for Europe: A travers chants ; 16. The art of composition: the treatise ; 17. Form and philosophy: The Damnation of Faust ; 18. Song in time of revolution ; 19. Vision of a virtuoso: Te Deum |
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Italy : 8. Roman holiday: Lelio ; 9. Recollected in tranquility: Harold in Italy ; 10. The gothic tradition: Requiem mass ; 11. The hero as artist: Benvenuto Cellini ; 12. The dramatic symphony: Romeo and Juliet ; 13. Vox populi: funeral and triumphal symphony ; 14. Interchapter: The century of romanticism |
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Supplements: I. Berlioz' Afterfame ; II. Biographer's fallacy: Boschot's Berlioz ; III. Desiderata; Present state of Berlioz studies ; IV. Euphonia and Bayreuth: Musical cities ; V. Berlioz on the future of rhythm ; VI. The fetish of form |
| Notes |
"Errors in the 'complete' edition of the scores": v. 2, p. [358]-381 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [383]-458 |
| Subject |
Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869.
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Composers -- France -- Biography.
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Composers -- France.
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Music -- Europe -- 19th century.
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Romanticism -- Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
77097504 |
| ISBN |
0231031351 |
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