Berlioz: Volume One
Subtitle: The Making of an Artist, 1803-1832
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 6, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780520221994
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Composers & musicians; Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); Music Of The 19th Century; Composers; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Historical - General; Biography/Autobiography; France; Composers & Musicians - Classical Composers; Music / General; Biography; Composers & Musicians - General; 1803-1869; Berlioz, Hector,
Notes: "First California printing 2000. First published by Allen Lane, The Penguin Press 1999. Originally published: London : A. Deutsch, 1989." - T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: The green and golden plain; title: Episodes in the early life of an artist; title: Dream kingdoms; title: Estelle; title: Hector the musician; title: To Paris; title: Apprentice composer; title: A time of trial; title: First performance; title: "They manage as they can"; title: Frustrations of a dramatist; title: Les frances-juges; title: "Gluck was a romantic"; title: Epiphany at the Odeon; title: The revelation of Beethoven; title: "A debut that will lead somewhere"; title: Second prize; title: Scenes from Faust; title: Burning in the void; title: In the steps of the master; title: The rebel and the schoolmen; title: A vital consolidation; title: The Fantastic Symphony; title: Camille; title: Revolution and the Prix de Rome; title: Prospero and Ariel; title: Tempests; title: Return to life; title: Fruitful idleness; title: "To feel that we exist"; title: "Si je n'etais captif"; title: Homecoming