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Berlioz in Time: From Early Recognition to Lasting Renown(Eastman Studies in Music)

Berlioz in Time: From Early Recognition to Lasting Renown(Eastman Studies in Music)


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Fourteen revealing essays by a prominent Berlioz authority on some of the composer's acclaimed compositions (the Symphonie fantastique, Les Nuits d'ete, Les Troyens) and writings (the celebrated Memoires). Written for both music lovers and scholars, these essays probe some of Berlioz's major works, including the Symphonie fantastique (the period of whose genesis is newly explored), Les Nuits d'ete (whose origins are newly clarified by a revelation regarding Berlioz's possible muse), the Symphonie militaire (whose existence is examined in the period before it became the Symphonie funebre et triomphale), Les Troyens (whose epilogue is seen as a paean to Napoleon III), and Beatrice et Benedict (whose text reveals extraordinary understanding of the original play). The essays consider anew Berlioz's relationships with Franz Liszt (with whom the composer shared intimate details of his marriage to Harriet Smithson) and Richard Wagner (by whom the Frenchman was both charmed and alarmed), his travels in Germany (revealed as having had a specifically administrative purpose), his appreciation of English literature and Shakespeare (on whose work he was considered an expert), his modus operandi in composing the Memoires, and his major twentieth-century biographers. Of conspicuous concern are the "politics" of a man sometimes erroneously viewed as distant from the political arena. This book is openly available in digital format thanks to generous funding from The New Berlioz Edition Trust.



Table of Contents:
Prologue: From Early Recognition to Lasting Renown 1 Berlioz in the Year of the Symphonie fantastique 2 Berlioz and the Translators 3 Berlioz and Liszt in the Locker Room 4 Berlioz's Directorship of the Théâtre-Italien 5 The Local Politics of Berlioz's Symphonie militaire 6 In the Shadows of Les Nuits d'été 7 Berlioz, Delacroix, and La Mort d'Ophélie 8 Berlioz's "Mission" to Germany: A Revealing Document Recovered 9 Berlioz and Wagner: Épisodes de la vie des artistes 10 Imperialism and the Ending of Les Troyens 11 Berlioz's "To be or not to be" 12 Berlioz, Béatrice, and Much Ado About Nothing 13 Berlioz Writing the Life of Berlioz Epilogue: Berlioz and the B's: Boschot, Barzun, and Beyond Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
PETER BLOOM is the Grace Jarcho Ross Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Smith College.

Review :
[This] product of four decades of scholarly work... provides useful and interesting enrichments to present-day Berlioz research; and it caps, in sure-handed fashion, the academic career of one of that field's great specialists. Always interestingly and in a closely argued manner, Bloom does not shy from offering speculation. One of this book's strong points is the sense that one gets of Bloom's deep knowledge of sources. This musicologist's closeness to the composer over at least a half-century allows him...what one could term "informed access" into Berlioz's creative, public, and private life and into...the society and culture of nineteenth-century France...[In Chapter 13] the scholar's dialogue with his own discoveries abounds in fascinating insights.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781648250200
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Rochester Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 374
  • Sub Title: From Early Recognition to Lasting Renown
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1648250203
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Eastman Studies in Music
  • Weight: 716 gr


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