Berlioz

2014 · 11402 — Oxford University Press 2014. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover xx300 pages NOT ex-library. Interior is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text no inscriptions no stamps firmly bound. A white glue mark on the front board. Untorn jacket with some creasing faint marks. -- "Berlioz the composer was also a writer and critic. His Memoirs and Evenings with the Orchestra are well-known and well-loved. This book offers a selection of his day-to-day criticism in English taking him from his student days as a participant in musical polemics over Rossini to his first years of mature success: in 1834 he began writing for the newly founded Revue et gazette musicale the French counterpart to Schumann's Neue Zeitschrift f r Musik; in 1835 he became music critic at the Journal des d bats the most influential such post of the day. 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 a year that also saw Victor Hugo's victory for the Romantics in the Classical bastion of the Th tre-Fran ais of and the premiere of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. A substantial introduction situates Berlioz's criticism in these watershed years that bring the advent of the as yet unknown Beethoven in France along with the first modern symphony orchestra a recognized musical canon the first successful French music journals and music criticism designed to guide and instruct rather than to judge. Each selection is accompanied by an introductory paragraph and explanatory notes. The most entertaining of critics Berlioz has found here the "good English-language anthology" of his criticism that Jacques Barzun founder of modern Berlioz studies called for in 1950." -- Contents: Introduction; Musical Polemic: On Dilettanti & Armide and Gluck; Arts: Observations on Classical and Romantic Music; Concert Society of the Conservatoire: First Concert; Music Review: Concerts 1833-1834; Gluck Part I; Music Review: Beethoven and the Dilettanti of Bordeaux & Henri Reber Quartets & Funeral Service for Choron; Rossini's William Tell Part I; Boieldieu; Notice to Readers Idle Enough to Read My Articles; Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris; Music Review: elle Letters for Piano by Chr tien Urhan; Gabussi's Ernani at the Th tre-Italien; Music Review: Op ra: William Tell - Op ra-Comique: Z mire et Azor Reprise - Concerts; Conservatoire Orchestra: First Concert Eighth Season; Critical Review: Le Moine Text by milien Pacini Music by G. Meyerbeer; Third Concert at the Conservatoire: Symphonies by Haydn and Beethoven; Music Review: Royal Academy of Music: First Performance of La Juive Opera in Five Acts by MM & Concert by the Pupils of Choron at the H tel de Ville; Concert Society of the Conservatoire: Fourth Concert; Sixth Conservatoire Concert; Concert by Franz Liszt: H tel de Ville; M. Cherubini's Requiem at the Invalides and M. Lesueur's Te Deum at Notre Dame; On the Score of H rold's Zampa; Music Review; Mozart's Don Juan; Religious Music: M. Lesueur: Rachel No mi Ruth et Booz Oratorios - M. Urhan: Auditions; Op ra-Comiqu - Concerts: Virtuosos and Composers; First Conservatoire Concert of the Season; Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots: Acts 4 and 5; Concerts at the Conservatoire: The Magic Flute and Les Myst res d'Isis - Mozart's Corrector; Liszt; Antoine Reicha; Musical Entertainments: Le Si ge de Corinthe at the Op ra - 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 the Galerie Colbert; Progress of Musical Education in France: M. Joseph Mainzer and M. Aub ry du Boulley; Polytechnical Society: Awards Ceremony; Op ra: William Tell - Debut of Duprez; Royal Academy of Music: Premiere of La Chatte m tamorphos e en femme Ballet in Three Acts by MM Charles Duveyrier and Corali Music by M. Montfort; Biographical Notes; Short Bibliography; Index <br/> <br/> Oxford University Press hardcover