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Berlioz Studies
Author(s): Peter Bloom
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: November 2, 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 300 pages
- ISBN-10: 0521028566
- ISBN-13: 9780521028561
Book Description
This book contains nine essays by leading Berlioz scholars on various aspects of the great nineteenth-century musician's life and work. Among the pieces studied closely are Romeo et Juliette, La Damnation de Faust and Les Nuits d' été. An essay on newly discovered documents gives us a revealing portrait of the artist as a young man; another essay which examines little studied manuscripts shows us how precisely Berlioz arranged Gluck's celebrated opera Orphée. The practical question of Berlioz's metronome marks are studied thoroughly for the first time, and 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 the musician.
Editorial Reviews
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"...may be the calmest, most thoughtful assessment of the composer that has yet appeared." The World & I
Book Description
This book contains essays by leading Berlioz scholars on various aspects of the great musician's life and work.
