The Life of Berlioz

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Cambridge University Press, 19.11.1998 - 211 Seiten
Berlioz was arguably the greatest French composer of the nineteenth century. Although the author of the Symphonie fantastique was possessed of a fertile imagination and sometimes obsessed by love, the image of Berlioz as a misunderstood and mistreated genius obscures both the solidity of his work as a musical architect and the reality of his position as one sometimes favored by those in power. This Life of Berlioz situates the celebrated French musician in the vibrant and highly politicized musical culture in which he lived and worked as composer, conductor, concert manager, and writer. Bloom's biography--based on special familiarity with archival sources and the composer's only recently made available writings--projects a noncaricatural and enormously talented Berlioz occupied with the practical details of polishing scores and articles, arranging concerts and tours, making connections with those in power, and making an independent career in the age of incipient free enterprise.
 

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Initiation 18031830
9
The medical student
13
Cherubinis Conservatoire
15
Paying for concerts
25
The paradoxical Prix de Rome
31
The Symphonie fantostique
41
Innovation 18301848
54
The composer in Paris
60
Introspection 18481869
117
Love marriage duty
132
The irresistible Institut de France
138
Dido Beatrice Shakespeare and Marie
146
A meaningful legacy
165
Afterword
177
Notes
192
Further reading
199

Commissions for the nation
82
Love and music
97
On the campaign trail
104

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