Berlioz on Music - Selected Criticism 1824-1837

Zusatztext Berlioz was forced to write criticism for a living, and hated the necessity, but he wrote marvellously, using his position to attack what was bad and exalt what was good, with the enthusiasm and caustic humour that were his trademarks. He collected and revised some of it later in books; but this welcome anthology shows him at grips with the day-to-day Paris music scene, at the moment of putting pen to paper. Informationen zum Autor Katherine Kolb is Professor Emerita of French and German at Southeastern Louisiana University. She also founded and directed the Kolb-Proust Archive at the University of Illinois-Urbana, where she collaborated on the first anthology of Marcel Proust's correspondence (Marcel Proust, Lettres, Plon 2004).Samuel N. Rosenberg is Professor Emeritus of French and Italian at Indiana University, where he taught language and linguistics -- including translation -- and literature of the Middle Ages. His translations, like his philological scholarship, have appeared in a wide variety of publications both American and French. Klappentext Hector Berlioz was not only a composer, but a renowned writer and critic, and his Memoirs and Evenings with the Orchestra are particularly well-known and loved. This book provides new translations of his criticism in English, taking him from his student days as a participant in musical polemics over Rossini to his first years of mature success. Zusammenfassung Hector Berlioz was not only a composer, but a renowned writer and critic, and his Memoirs and Evenings with the Orchestra are particularly well-known and loved. This book provides new translations of his criticism in English, taking him from his student days as a participant in musical polemics over Rossini to his first years of mature success. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents 1. MUSICAL POLEMIC: On "Dilettanti" 2. MUSICAL POLEMIC: On Armide and Gluck 3. THE ARTS. Observations on Classical Music and Romantic Music, Le Correspondant, October 22, 1830 4. Beethoven and the Egyptian Pyramids; Weber's Freischütz; Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony 5. Liszt, Chopin, and Ferdinand Hiller; launching of the Fantastic Symphony 6. MUSIC REVIEW: Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Théâtre-Italien; Beethoven quartets 7. MUSIC REVIEW: Beethoven by the Müller Quartet; Chopin; Mozart's Don Giovanni vs. Don Juan; Handel festival in London 8. MUSIC REVIEW: Women performers; violinist Hauman's communicative emotion; Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Shakespeare's Othello; Cherubini aria sung by Ponchard; rarity of great singers 9. Gluck (Part I). Gazette musicale de Paris, June 1, 1834. Biographical sketch; "critique admirative" of monologue from Il Telemaco 10. MUSIC REVIEW: Turkish music; Beethoven's "Eroica" booed in Bordeaux; musical conditions in the provinces; oasis of progress in Lyon 11. MUSIC REVIEW: Jealousy vs. solidarity among artists; trials of young composers; ironies on Conservatoire training; Henri Reber quartets; Liszt performs in his piano trio 12. Music Review: Choron, voice teacher and propagator of sacred music of the past; funeral service at the Invalides: Mozart Requiem, Jommelli, and Palestrina 13. Funeral service for Choron; Decline of religious music in France; destruction of old-regime choir schools; church ban on women singers 14. Rossini's William Tell (Part I) 15. BOIELDIEU: Funeral music for Boieldieu; survey of requiems; Cherubini 16. NOTICE TO READERS IDLE ENOUGH TO READ MY ARTICLES: Satirical announcement of Berlioz's upcoming concert, conducted by Girard; amusing summary of Harold in Italy 17. IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS (Part I): Early enthusiasm for Gluck; life-changing first experience of Gluck's masterpiece at the Opéra (1821). 18. Music review: à Elle, Letters for Piano by Chrétien Urhan 19. THEATRE-ITALIEN: Gabussi's Ernani 20. MUSIC REVIEW. OPéRA. William Tell. OPéRA-COMIQUE: Zémire...

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Hector Berlioz was not only a composer, but a renowned writer and critic, and his Memoirs and Evenings with the Orchestra are particularly well-known and loved. This book provides new translations of his criticism in English, taking him from his student days as a participant in musical polemics over Rossini to his first years of mature success.

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• Authors: Katherine Kolb, Katherine (Professor Emerita of French and G Kolb, Samuel N Rosenberg
• Assisted by: Katherine Kolb (Editor), Samuel N Rosenberg (Translation), Samuel N. Rosenberg (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2015
• EAN: 9780199391950
• ISBN: 978-0-19-939195-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music theory