[PDF] Hector Berlioz eBook

Author : Jeffrey Alan Langford
Publisher : New York : Garland
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 39,39 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Composers
ISBN :

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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 : University of Chicago Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 35,69 MB
Release : 1999-05-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0226043746

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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
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 1932-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780486215631

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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
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1545748896

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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 : Hector Berlioz
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252069420

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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.