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1. Evenings with the Orchestra by Hector Berlioz | |
Paperback: 408
Pages
(1999-05-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description "[F]ull of knowledge, penetration, good sense, individual wit, stock humor, justifiable exasperation, understanding exaggeration, emotion and rhetoric of every kind."--Randall Jarrell, New York Times Book Review "To succeed in [writing these tales], as Berlioz most brilliantly does, requires a combination of qualities which is very rare, the many-faceted curiosity of the dramatist with the aggressively personal vision of the lyric poet."--W. H. Auden, The Griffin Customer Reviews (6)
Brilliant! Absolutely, positively brilliant!
Brilliant but dated
Unusual, eccentric, hilarious and historic I have subsequently read the Memoirs and these are not to be missed either. Berlioz was an extraordinary man and so neglected in his native France. For music lovers generally, I would also draw your attention to Jan Swafford's biography of Johannes Brahms - it is very insightful and wonderfully well written.
Fascinating and entertaining Buy it and enjoy.
This is the funniest book in the world! |
2. The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Hector Berlioz, David Cairns | |
Hardcover: 720
Pages
(2002-03-19)
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Not Just for the Musicologists.
A GreatLife
One of my favorite books
Fantastic
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3. Hector Berlioz: Les Troyens (Cambridge Opera Handbooks) by Ian Kemp | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(1989-01-27)
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4. Treatise on Instrumentation by Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss | |
Paperback: 432
Pages
(1991-11-08)
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A simple review
Treatise!
A book for all levels of composers
A true classic
Strauss's additions are worth the price alone I highly recommend the Treatise on Instrumentation. It is worth the price just to get to hear the personal opinions and thoughts of two master composers. ... Read more |
5. Memoirs of Hector Berlioz: From 1803 to 1865 comprising his travels in Germany, Italy, Russia and England by Ernest Newman | |
Hardcover: 533
Pages
(1966-01-01)
Asin: B0026CSCBY Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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6. Berlioz: Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness, 1832-1869 by David Cairns | |
Paperback: 907
Pages
(2003-10-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Volume II follows Berlioz's life from 1832 to his death in 1869, his most active years as a composer, conductor, and critic. This volume provides telling portraits of those close to Berlioz: his two wives, his son and his sisters, his friends and colleagues, fellow composers and critics. Cairns vividly evokes Berlioz's music and the music-making world of nineteenth-century Paris. Volume II also includes chapters on Wagner, Berlioz's career as a critic, the composer's concert tours in Germany, Russia, and England, and much more. Cairns picks up the story at the time of Berlioz's marriage to Harriet Smithson in 1833, with whom he had been obsessively infatuated for so long. It's a mournful story, with her alcoholism, their separation in 1844, and her premature death in 1854. Cairns links the vicissitudes of Berlioz's own life directly with his music: the composition of La Mort d'Ophélie marks the symbolic end of their marriage. "The elegiac significance of this infinitely sad melody would be hard to miss." Cairns writes sensitively and evocatively about Berlioz's music, and one of the central pillars of this second volume is a compelling defense of the composer's Les Troyens (1856), his much-maligned and chopped-about operatic masterpiece. Critics of the day were not kind: "so vulgar, so badly designed and so distorted with impossible modulations that one would take it to be the music of a deaf man," said one. There were many cartoons, which Cairns reprints, along the lines of "new method of killing cattle to be introduced at all slaughterhouses," in which an ox is pictured felled by having The Trojans played to it through a large tuba. But Cairns convincingly demonstrates just how far ahead of his time Berlioz was and how heroic was his struggle to have this titanic opera performed and accepted in the teeth of persistent obstacles. It is Cairns's opinion that Berlioz, "like the biblical man, was born to trouble as the sparks fly upwards." His biography follows the tragedies and the triumphs of this larger-than-life individual with a narrative force as gripping as a good novel. --Adam Roberts Customer Reviews (3)
The last word on Berlioz?
A massive treatise, seldom dull, often enlightening The person one feels sorriest for is his son Louis, born into a marriage that Berlioz' father and sisters opposed, sent to boarding school when his mother descended into alcoholism and madness, seldom receiving the bonding love of his all-too-busy father.We also learn that Berlioz purposely suppressed inspirations to compose symphonies because he couldn't afford to perform them, and he wanted to use the money to help set up his son as a sailor. Best of all, however, we get a VERY realistic glimpse into the performing world of the early-to-late 19th century, in which composers had to foot the bill for the performance (and copying) of their own works, playing to half-filled houses and often losing money on their ventures.We also learn of the strengths and weaknesses of the various musical centers of Europe, particularly the weaknesses, so much so that the composer often deleted movements from his symphonies and masses because the performers could not play them correctly.Thus the "golden age" of the Romantic era is dispelled as a myth propagated by rumor and hearsay.The reality is far less sunny, making us realize that even then art music struggled to find an audience and be appreciated. Most of all, one suffers along with Berlioz, feels his angst and anguish as he struggles time and again to establish and re-establish himself in the face of organized, official opposition.Yes, there were critics and audiences who did recognize his genius and love his music, cruel reviews and nasty caricatures to the contrary, and this acceptance was much more widespread among lay listeners than we have been led to believe.Berlioz was cheered, mobbed and loved by practically every European culture center EXCEPT Paris, and even there he had his partisans....just never enough to keep him afloat financially or help him get his music produced. If you love classical music and enjoy Berlioz, this is a recommended read.....just go slowly, don't try to speed-read through it, and you will get a lot more out of it.
Berlioz finally gets the royal treatment he deserves! |
7. Hector Berlioz an Illustrated Biography by Victor Seroff | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1967-01-01)
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A collector's delight |
8. Romeo and Juliet, Op. 17 (Schott) | |
Paperback: 300
Pages
(1981-08-01)
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9. The Life and Times of Hector Berlioz (Masters of Music) by Jim Whiting | |
Library Binding: 48
Pages
(2004-08)
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Editorial Review Product Description 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. In real life, Berlioz met Harriet several years later. He put on a special concert for her that included a performance of Symphonie fantastique. Harriet was impressed. Soon she fell in love with him and they were married. Did they live happily ever after? |
10. Hector Berlioz (German Edition) by Rudolf Louis | |
Paperback: 218
Pages
(2010-02-11)
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11. Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865 (Music Book Index Series) by Hector Berlioz | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1992-10)
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12. Famous Composers: Schubert. Louis Spohr. Meyerbeer. Mendelssohn. Schumann. Frédéric François Chopin. Mikhaïl Ivánovitch Glinka. Hector Berlioz. Franz Liszt. Richard Wagner by Nathan Haskell Dole | |
Paperback: 310
Pages
(2010-01-11)
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13. Berlioz (Master Musicians Series) by Hugh Macdonald | |
Paperback: 280
Pages
(2001-02-22)
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A MARVELOUS PORTRAIT OF AN INNOVATIVE EARLY ROMANTIC COMPOSER |
14. Hector Berlioz: -1884 by Joseph Bennett | |
Paperback: 142
Pages
(2009-07-24)
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15. Mémoires de Hector Berlioz (French Edition) by Hector Berlioz | |
Paperback: 388
Pages
(2010-04-02)
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16. The Art of Music and Other Essays: (A Travers Chants) by Hector Berlioz | |
Hardcover: 296
Pages
(1994-06-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description "Berlioz the person-composer-writer is the sensitive child of his century and a most passionate voice of his time." -- The Opera Quarterly "Berlioz could hardly have been better served than by the translator of this English edition... It is an invaluable and long-overdue addition to the Berlioz literature in English. Elisabeth Csicsery-Rónay has given us an A travers chants for the millennium." -- Music and Letters Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was equally prominent as composer and music critic. A Travers Chants is the collection of writings he himself selected from his thirty-odd years of musical journalism. This new translation, phrased in lively, idiomatic English and annotated for the twentieth-century reader, is illustrated with lithographs and drawings from Berlioz's lifetime. Customer Reviews (1)
Hector Berlioz - the literary composer |
17. Hector Berlioz: A Romantic Tragedy by Herbert F. Peyser | |
Hardcover: 54
Pages
(2010-09-10)
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18. Hector Berlioz; Selections from His Letters, and Aesthetic, Humorous, and Satirical Writings by William Foster Apthorp, Hector Berlioz | |
Paperback: 444
Pages
(2010-02-04)
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19. Berlioz Memoirs Hector Berlioz (The Norton library ; N698) by Hector Berlioz | |
Paperback: 636
Pages
(1975)
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A Must for Berlioz Fans |
20. Hector Berlioz : 1803-1869 by René Maubon, Jean Carrière | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(2003-06-17)
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