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 Roméo et Juliette - Hugh Macdonald
Beethoven, Shakespeare, and Berlioz's Scène 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
PETER BLOOM is the Grace Jarcho Ross Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Smith College. HUGH MACDONALD was the Avis Blewett Professor of Music, Washington University, St Louis from 1987 to 2011. He is the author of many important books, including Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers and Themes (URP, 2008), Music in 1853: the Biography of a Year (Boydell Press, 2012), and Saint-Saëns and the Stage (CUP, 2019). JULIAN RUSHTON is Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Leeds, UK. PETER BLOOM is the Grace Jarcho Ross Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Smith College.
A splendid-looking, meticulously edited and presented book, with a
characteristically stylish introduction by Peter Bloom.
*MUSIC AND LETTERS*
A diverse collection of twelve essays by outstanding Berlioz
scholars. . . . The range of topics covered could scarcely be
wider. . . . Barzun examines . . . music's ability to express --
and arouse -- emotions. . . . Gérard Condé's excellently written
essay 'Berlioz as Composer-Critic' shows the great value of
Berlioz's journalism. . . . Hugh Macdonald convincingly speculates
that much of Berlioz's initial excitement with Shakespeare's Romeo
and Juliet . . . became absorbed into the Fantastic Symphony. . . .
David Cairns adds wisdom and discernment. . . Readers with a
special passion for Berlioz will derive great enjoyment from this
admirably produced collection.
*CLASSICAL MUSIC MAGAZINE*
[This volume was produced] under the distinguished editorship of
Peter Bloom. . . . Highly explorative articles on the dramatic
symphony Roméo et Juliette form the core of the volume. Hugh
Macdonald argues speculatively and most persuasively for the
existence of a lost or destroyed early work on that same
Shakespearean subject. . . . His inspired speculations add further
fascinating resonances to these achieved masterworks [Roméo and the
Symphonie fantastique].
*MUSICAL TIMES*
Keen, provocative, and methodologically innovative work....[Hugh
Macdonald offers] a model for more sophisticated textual analysis
of the Fantastique....The essays touching on questions of
autobiography...present a wealth of new facts about Berlioz and a
series of new ways of 'reading' his life...The [book's] individual
contributions...coalesc[e] into a remarkably cogent whole.
*MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTES*
Each of the twelve essays gives the reader informative and
intelligent insight into Berlioz, and each is very much worth
reading. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates
through faculty and professionals.
*CHOICE*
A valuable addition to Berlioz scholarship.
*AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE*
For all lovers of Berlioz, a splendid book from the leading experts
on his life and music: detailed analysis of the music, large scraps
of small histories, and an essay from Jacques Barzun on the
possibility of the meaning of music.
*Go out and buy it! --Sir Colin Davis*
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