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Author : Hector Berlioz,Ernest Newman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1932-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0486215636
Self-revelations of tormented great composer; musical life in Paris, Wagner and other contemporaries, musical opinions, much more. 11 plates.
Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612289274
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 : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Ian Kemp
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521348137
This is a series of studies of individual operas written for the opera-goer or record-collector as well as the student or scholar. Each volume has three main concerns: historical, analytical and interpretative. There is a detailed description of the genesis of each work, the collaboration between librettist and composer, and the first performance and subsequent stage history. A full synopsis considers the opera as a structure of musical and dramatic effects, and there is also a musical analysis of a section of the score. The analysis, like the history, shades naturally into interpretation: by a careful combination of new essays and excerpts from classic statements the editors of the handbooks show how critical writing about the opera, like the production and performance, can direct or distort appreciation of its structural elements. A final section of documents gives a select bibliography, a discography, and guides to other sources. Each book is published in both hard covers and as a paperback.
Author : Inge van Rij
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521896467
Inge van Rij's book demonstrates how Berlioz used the sights and sounds of the orchestra to explore other worlds.
Author : Jim Whiting
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781545748893
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.
Author : David Trippett,Benjamin Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107111257
Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.
Author : Jeffrey Alan Langford,Jane Denker Graves
Publisher : New York : Garland
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Composers
ISBN : UCAL:B4284164
A selective, annotated bibliography comprising 900 of the most significant pieces of Berlioz research and criticism that have appeared. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199391950
As a composer, Hector Berlioz embodied his century as the quintessential Romantic artist. Niccolo Paganini called him "Beethoven's only heir," and for a young Richard Wagner, he was dazzling as a composer, orchestra conductor, and critic. But Berlioz was known as much for his writings as for his music, and for decades Berlioz scholars have stressed the need for a good English-language anthology of his criticism. Featuring new translations and commentary by Katherine Kolb and Samuel N. Rosenberg,Berlioz on Music: Selected Criticism 1824-1837 is that volume. Berlioz's centrality as a critic results from his literary brilliance, his location in Paris -- the music capital of the nineteenth century -- and his 28-year tenure at the powerfulJournal des debats. As one of its founding editors and principal writers, Berlioz contributed about 250 articles to the publication.Berlioz on Music comprises articles from the first 14 years of Berlioz's public writings, given in chronological order and, with few exceptions, in their entirety. Following chronology affords an overview of Berlioz's evolution as critic and of a key phase in the development of modern musical culture. The volume also presents explanatory data in engagingly composed introductions and footnotes, which elucidate Berlioz's references to persons, musical and literary works, historical events, and more. The reader is allowed to follow musical events during one of the richest periods in French cultural history, including the revolutionary decade surrounding 1830, a year marked by Victor Hugo's victory for the Romantics in the Classical bastion of the Théâtre-Français, by the premiere of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony, and by the toppling of the Restoration monarchy. The result is an engaging collection of Berlioz's lively prose, presented with scholarly rigor and rendered in accessible English. Music historians, both professional and amateur, as well 19th century European history enthusiasts will findBerlioz on Music a compelling introduction to one of the richest periods of French culture.
Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252069420
A daring composer in his own right, Hector Berlioz made a considerable reputation and a modest living for himself writing about music. This compact volume gathers brief, pithy essays Berlioz wrote on Beethoven's nine symphonies, his opera, Fidelio, and his piano sonatas and trios. Berlioz vividly depicts the salient features of the music with observations that are acute and passionate, as valuable for musicians as for amateurs. Beyond its astute commentary on the music, however, Berlioz's book offers a rare firsthand look at the reception and reputation accorded Beethoven's music in the decades following his death. Berlioz transcribes the comments of amateurs leaving the conservatoire after a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and provides a mocking glimpse of the French appreciation of the great German composer: What stands in the way of the music of 'Fidelio' as regards the Parisian public is ... the great disdain of the composer for sonorous effects which are not justified. He addresses Beethoven's skillful use of the orchestra as an instrument of drama and the general disapprobation that greeted this approach. He also includes a satirical piece on the fad of calling up the spirit of a composer and transcribing new, posthumous compositions. Berlioz's essays testify to the tumult caused by Beethoven's music in his time and offer ways to approach the music that remain enlightening and fresh.
Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547090083
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 : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Orchestral music
ISBN : UOM:49015001045781
Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226043746
In this delightful and now classic narrative, written by the brilliant composer and critic Hector Berlioz, readers are made privy to 25 highly entertaining evenings with a fascinating group of distracted performers.
Author : Hector Berlioz,Richard Strauss
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486319728
This influential work appraises the musical qualities and potential of over 60 stringed, wind, and percussion instruments. Includes 150 full-score musical examples from works by Berlioz, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, others. Foreword by Richard Strauss.
Author : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Composers
ISBN : UOM:39015007838702