Berlioz on music
Subtitle: selected criticism, 1824-1837
By: edited by Katherine Kolb ; translated by Samuel N. Rosenberg
Contributors: Kolb, Katherine, editor; Rosenberg, Samuel N., translator
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780199391950
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Musical criticism
Work titles: Prose works
Description: Berlioz the composer was also a writer and critic. This collection offers a selection of his day-to-day criticism, taking him from his student days to his first years of mature success. Through Berlioz's eyes we follow musical events during one of the richest periods in French cultural history-- the decade surrounding the Revolution of 1830.
Notes: "Oxford web music"--Back cover.

"About the companion website": page xix.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287) and index.
Table of contents: title: Musical polemic: on "Dilettanti"; title: Musical polemic: On Armide and Gluck; title: The arts: observations on classical music and romantic music; title: Concert Society of the Conservatoire: first concert; title: Music review: concerts; title: Gluck (Part I); title: Music review: Beethoven and the Dilettanti of Bordeaux; title: Music review: Henri Reber Quartets; title: Music review: Funeral service for Choron (I); title: Music review: Funeral service for Choron (II); title: Rossini's William Tell (Part I); title: Boieldieu; title: Notice to readers idle enough to read my articles; title: Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris (Part I); title: Music review: À elle, letters for piano by Chrétien Urhan; title: Gabussi's Ernani at the Théâtre-Italien; title: Music review: Opéra: William Tell; Opéra-Comique: Zémire et Azor (Reprise); Concerts; title: Conservatoire orchestra: first concert [Eighth season]; title: Critical review: "Le Moine," text by Émilien Pacini, Music by G. Meyerbeer; title: Third concert at the Conservatoire: symphonies by Haydn and Beethoven; title: Music review: Royal Academy of Music: first performance of La Juive, Opera in five acts by M M. Scribe and Halévy; title: Music review: Concert by the pupils of Choron at the Hôtel de Ville; title: Concert Society of the Conservatoire: fourth concert; title: Sixth Conservatoire concert; title: Concert by Franz Liszt: Hôtel de Ville (Salle Saint-Jean); title: M. Cherubini's Requiem at the Invalides and m. Lesueur's Te Deum at Notre Dame; title: On the score of Hérold's Zampa; title: Mozart's Don Juan; title: Religious music: M. Lesueur: Rachel, Noëmi, Ruth et Booz, Oratorios; M. Urhan: Auditions; title: Opéra-Comique- concerts: Virtuosos and composers; title: First Conservatoire Concert of the season; title: Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots: Acts 4 and 5; title: Concerts at the Conservatoire: The Magic Flute and Les Mystéres d'Isis; Mozart's corrector; title: Liszt; title: Antoine Reicha; title: Musical entertainments: Le Siége de Corinthe at the Opéra: M. Ole Bull; M. Labarre and his harp school; Music of public festivals: Paris artists and music lovers celebrating the victory at Fleurus in 1794; Amateur fund-raiser for the wounded in 1830; Huge chorus in Galerie Colbert; title: The progress of musical education in France: M. Joseph Mainzer and M. Aubéry du Boulley; title: Polytechnical society: awards ceremony; title: Opéra: William Tell: debut of Duprez; title: Royal Academy of Music: premiere of La Chatte métamorphosée en femme, Ballet in three acts by MM. Charles Duveyrier and Corali, music by M. Montfort.