The Life of BerliozCambridge 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. |
Inhalt
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 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Académie admired artistic Auber August Béatrice et Bénédict became Beethoven Benvenuto Cellini Berlioz gave Berlioz wrote biographical Camille cantata career century Cherubini chorus composer composer's composition conductor Conservatoire critic Damnation de Faust death December Dido director dramatic earlier Édouard emotional English Estelle father Ferrand Francs-Juges French Gazette musicale German Gluck grand Habeneck Halévy Harriet Smithson Hector Berlioz imagination Institut de France instrumental Italy Journal des débats July King L'Enfance du Christ La Côte-Saint-André later Les Troyens letter Liszt London Louis-Philippe March Marie Récio Marie's marriage Mémoires Minister months movement Musée musicians musique Napoleon never November opera orchestra Paris Parisian performance piano poser première Prix de Rome prize published Requiem Revolution Revue et Gazette Richard Wagner romantic Rome Roméo et Juliette Scène score Shakespeare Société des Concerts suggest Symphonie fantastique Symphonie funèbre Tannhäuser theater Théâtre thousand francs tion told took Troyens writing