Berlioz And His Century

Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226038610

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Berlioz and His Century by Jacques Barzun Pdf

In this abridgment of his monumental study, Berlioz and the Romantic Century, Jacques Barzun recounts the events and extraordinary achievements of the great composer's life against the background of the romantic era. As the author eloquently demonstrates, Berloiz was an archetype whose destiny was the story of an age, the incarnation of an artistic style and a historical spirit. "In order to understand the nineteenth century, it is essential to understand Berlioz," notes W. H. Auden, "and in order to understand Berlioz, it is essential to read Professor Barzun."

Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:39015007838769

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Berlioz and the Romantic Century by Jacques Barzun Pdf

The author recounts the events and extraordinary achievements of the great composer's life against the background of the romantic era. As the author eloquently demonstrates, Berloiz was an archetype whose destiny was the story of an age, the incarnation of an artistic style and a historical spirit. "In order to understand the nineteenth century, it is essential to understand Berlioz," notes W. H. Auden, "and in order to understand Berlioz, it is essential to read Professor Barzun."

Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:318243531

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Berlioz and His Century by Jacques Barzun Pdf

Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:174344473

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Berlioz and the Romantic Century by Jacques Barzun Pdf

Author : Jacques Barzun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015007838785

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Berlioz and the Romantic Century by Jacques Barzun Pdf

Author : Francesca Brittan,Sarah Hibberd
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226837659

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Berlioz and His World by Francesca Brittan,Sarah Hibberd Pdf

A collection of essays and short object lessons on the composer Hector Berlioz, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) has long been a difficult figure to place and interpret. Famously, in Richard Wagner’s estimation, he hovered as a “transient, marvelous exception,” a composer woefully and willfully isolated. In the assessment of German composer Ferdinand Hiller, he was a fleeting comet who “does not belong in our musical solar system,” the likes of whom would never be seen again. For his contemporaries, as for later critics, Berlioz was simply too strange—and too noisy, too loud, too German, too literary, too cavalier with genre and form, and too difficult to analyze. He was, in many ways, a composer without a world. Berlioz and His World takes a deep dive into the composer’s complex legacy, tracing lines between his musical and literary output and the scientific, sociological, technological, and political influences that shaped him. Comprising nine essays covering key facets of Berlioz’s contribution and six short “object lessons” meant as conversation starters, the book reveals Berlioz as a richly intersectional figure. His very difficulty, his tendency to straddle the worlds of composer, conductor, and critic, is revealed as a strength, inviting new lines of cross-disciplinary inquiry and a fresh look at his European and American reception.

Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547090083

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The Life of Hector Berlioz as Written by Himself in His Letters and Memoirs by Hector Berlioz Pdf

Here, the author provides us with a biography of Hector Berlioz, a French Romantic composer and conductor. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy, choral pieces including the Requiem and L'Enfance du Christ, his three operas Benvenuto Cellini, Les Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict, and works of hybrid genres such as the "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette and the "dramatic legend" La Damnation de Faust.

Author : Francesca Brittan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107136328

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Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz by Francesca Brittan Pdf

An exploration of fantastic soundworlds in nineteenth-century France, providing a fresh aesthetic and compositional context for Berlioz and others.

Author : D. Kern Holoman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674067789

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Berlioz by D. Kern Holoman Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1104959666

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The Life of Hector Berlioz (1903) by Hector Berlioz Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : David Trippett,Benjamin Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107111257

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Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination by David Trippett,Benjamin Walton Pdf

Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.

Author : Peter Bloom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-08-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521596386

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The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz by Peter Bloom Pdf

Provides a comprehensive view of Berlioz the man, the composer, the critic and the writer.

Author : Richard Langham Smith,Caroline Potter
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Music
ISBN : 0754602826

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French Music Since Berlioz by Richard Langham Smith,Caroline Potter Pdf

French Music Since Berlioz explores key developments in French classical music during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The volume draws on the expertise of a range of French music scholars who provide their own perspectives on particular aspects of the subject. Aimed at teachers and students of French music history, it is an essential companion for anyone interested in the field.

Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612289274

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The Life and Times of Hector Berlioz by Jim Whiting Pdf

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. 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?

Author : Christopher John Murray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1303 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135455798

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Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850 by Christopher John Murray Pdf

In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on the literature, thought, music, and art of the period, demonstrating the rich interplay of international influences and cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism.