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Berlioz the Critic: Selected Writings from 1837 to 1850

Berlioz the Critic: Selected Writings from 1837 to 1850

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Availability:In StockContributor:Julian Rushton (Editor), Roger Nichols, Roger Nichols (Translator)Publish date:2025-06-10Pages:314
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Rochester PressISBN-13:9781648250736ISBN-10:1648250734UPC:9781648250736Book Category:Music, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:History & Criticism, Individual Composer & Musician, MusicSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SC1NBHYF1C
Hector Berlioz combined writing music with lively and informed music criticism. This collection of articles, engagingly translated by Roger Nichols, covers the middle years of his critical career.

Berlioz's music criticism from 1837 to 1850 covers a period druing which he composed some of his finest works, and travelled abroad to perform them before appreciative audiences in Germany, Russia, and England. Roger Nichols has chosen and translated extracts from fifty-eight articles of particular interest, with commentary and notes identifying people mentioned. Berlioz scholars Peter Bloom and Julian Rushton provide an informative introduction and a comprehensive editorial apparatus.

In the selected articles Berlioz discusses Paris performances of early and modern music, including new operas and revivals, and concerts at the Paris Conservatoire. He comments freely but with understanding on conductors, singers and instrumentalists. The essays demonstrate the composer's concern with innovation in the design of musical instruments and assess the quality of performing venues. Berlioz writes on the musical life of London, France, and Germany, most entertainingly about the inauguration of statues of Beethoven and Rossini. The selection is framed by major articles on "Imitation in Music" and on Gluck's opera Alceste.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Rochester PressISBN-13:9781648250736ISBN-10:1648250734UPC:9781648250736Book Category:Music, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:History & Criticism, Individual Composer & Musician, MusicSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SC1NBHYF1C
Rushton, Julian: - JULIAN RUSHTON is Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Leeds, UK.Nichols, Roger: - ROGER NICHOLS is an independent musicologist, writer, and translator.Bloom, Peter: - PETER BLOOM is the Grace Jarcho Ross Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Smith College.
Publisher: University of Rochester Press

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