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Berlioz Studies

Catalogue No: 9780521412865
This book contains essays by leading Berlioz scholars on various aspects of the great musician’s life and work.
£116.00

Edited by Peter Bloom


This volume contains nine substantial essays by the world’s leading Berlioz scholars. They cover various aspects of Berlioz’s life and works and represent an important contribution to Berlioz research. The book includes essays based on documents, both biographical and musical, that give us, among other things, a portrait of the artist as a young man and a revealing view of an important but little-studied work of his maturity. There are readings of Romeo et Juliette and La Damnation de Faust that wrestle anew with the problems of the relationships between literature and music and - as Berlioz’s music nearly always requires - with the problems of genre. Two views of Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été are presented which ask when and why the work was conceived, and how the work coheres. The practical question of Berlioz’s metronome marks are here thoroughly studied for the first time. The volume closes with a novel piece, in dialogue form, by the elder statesman of Berlioz scholars, Jacques Barzun, who treats with exceptional grace the profound issues raised by Berlioz the man and musician.


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Contents

  • Preface
  • List of abbreviations
  • 1. The Reboul-Berlioz collection David Cairns
  • 2. Berlioz and the metronome Hugh MacDonald
  • 3. Romeo and Juliet and Roméo et Juliette Ian Kemp
  • 4. In the shadows of Les Nuits dété Peter Bloom
  • 5. Les Nuits dete: cycle or collection? Julian Rushton
  • 6. Ritter Berlioz in Germany David B. Levy
  • 7. The Damnation of Faust: the perils of heroism in Music Katherine Reeve
  • 8. Berliozs version of Glucks Orphée Joël-Marie Fauquet
  • 9. Overheard at Glimmerglass (famous last words) Jacques Barzun
  • Index.
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Specifications

Product Format
Book
Publication Date
10/09/1992
ISBN
9780521412865 (0521412862)
Editor
Peter Bloom
Language
English
Author
Peter Bloom