The memoirs of Hector Berlioz
By: translated and edited by David Cairns.
Contributors: Cairns, David.
Series: Everyman's library ;; 231
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 709
Subjects: Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869.; Composers -- France -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz has long been considered to be among the best of musical autobiographies. Like his massive compositions, Berlioz (1803-1869) was colorful, eloquent, larger than life. His book is both an account of his important place in the rise of the Romantic movement and a personal testament. He tells the story of his liaison with Harriet Smithson, and his even more passionate affairs of the mind with Shakespeare, Scott, and Byron.

Familiar with all the great figures of the age, Berlioz paints brilliant portraits of Liszt, Wagner, Balzac, Weber, and Rossini, among others. And through Berlioz's intimate and detailed self-revelation, there emerges a profoundly sympathetic and attractive man, driven, finally, by his overwhelming creative urges to a position of lonely eminence."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 675-677) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Editor's Introduction xi; title: Chronology xxii; title: THE MEMOIRS; title: PREFACE 3; title: TRAVELS IN ITALY I23; title: MEMOIRS CONTINUED; title: TRAVELS IN GERMANY-I 259; title: MEMOIRS CONTINUED; title: TRAVELS IN GERMANY-II 389; title: MEMOIRS CONTINUED; title: TRAVELS IN RUSSIA 454; title: MEMOIRS CONCLUDED; title: POSTSCRIPT 519; title: POSTFACE 529; title: TRAVELS IN DAUPHINE 549; title: Editor's Epilogue 571; title: APPENDIX I Berlioz described; title: by his contemporaries 574; title: APPENDIX II Glossary 580; title: APPENDIX III Errors, disputed points; title: and other matters 627; title: APPENDIX IV Sources of the Memoirs 672; title: APPENDIX V A short Bibliography 675; title: INDEX 679.