Memoirs of Hector Berlioz from 1803 to 1865 : comprising his travels in Germany, Italy, Russia, and England / translated by Rachel (Scott Russell) Holmes and Eleanor Holmes; annotated, and the translation revised, by Ernest Newman.
| Author/creator |
Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869 |
| Other author/creator | Holmes, Rachel Scott Russell, translator. |
| Other author/creator | Holmes, Eleanor, translator. |
| Other author/creator | Newman, Ernest, 1868-1959, editor. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | New York : Tudor Pub. Co., 1932. |
| Description | xxiii pages, 2 leaves, [3]-533, xiii, [1] page : illustrations (music) plate, portraits ; 24 cm |
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| Contents | La Cote-Saint-Andre. First communion ; First musical experience -- My father. Literary education ; Passion for travelling ; Virgil ; First poetical impressions -- Meylan. My uncle ; The pink shoes ; The Hamadryad of Saint Eynard ; Love at twelve years of age -- First music-lessons from my father. Attempts at composition ; Anatomical studies ; Antipathy to medicine ; Departure for Paris -- A year of medical studies. Professor Amussat ; A performance at the opera ; The conservatoire library ; Irresistible attraction towards music ; My father refuses to let me adopt it as a profession ; Family discussions -- I become one of Lesueur's pupils. His kindness ; The chapel royal -- A first opera. M. Andrieux ; A first mass ; M. de Chateau-Briand -- Augustin de Pons; lends me twelve hundred francs. My mass performed for the first time at St. Roch ; Second performance at St. Eustache ; I burn it -- First interview with Cherubini. He turns me out of the conservatoire library -- My father withdraws my allowance. I return to the Cote ; Provincial ideas of art and artists ; Despair ; My father's alarm ; He allows me to return to Paris ; My mother's fanaticism ; Her curse -- I return to Paris. Give lessons ; Enter Reicha's class at the conservatoire ; Dinners on the Pont Neuf ; My father again stops my allowance ; Relentless opposition ; Humbert Ferrand ; Rodolphe Kreutzer -- I compete for a place as chorus-singer, and get it. A. Charbonnel ; Our Bachelor establishment -- First compositions for the orchestra. Studies at the opera ; Lesueur and Reicha -- Competition at the conservatoire. My cantata declared unplayable ; Adoration for Gluck and Spontini ; Arrival of Rossini ; The "Dilettanti" ; My fury ; M. Ingres -- Evenings at the opera. Proselytism ; Scandals ; A scene of enthusiasm ; A sensitive mathematician -- Weber at the Odeon. Castilblaze ; Mozart ; Lachnith ; "Adapters" ; "Despair and die!" -- Prejudice against operas with Italian words. The influence produced by this feeling on my appreciation of some of Mozart's works -- Shakespeare. Miss Smithson ; Fatal love ; Moral lethargy ; My first concert ; Cherubini's droll opposition ; His defeat ; His first dose -- A futile concert. A conductor who cannot conduct ; A chorus which cannot sing -- Beethoven at the conservatoire. Vindictive reserve of the French musicians ; Impressions produced on Lesueur by the symphony in C minor ; His persistence adherence to his former conclusions -- Fatality. I become a critic -- The competition for musical composition. The constitution of the Academie des Beaux-Arts ; I gain the second prize -- The academy porter. His revelations -- Miss Smithson again. A benefit ; Cruel fate -- My third trial at the conservatoire. No first prize awarded ; A curious conversation with Boieldieu ; Soothing music -- I read Goethe's "Faust" for the first time. "Symphonie Fantastique" ; Fruitless endeavors to get it performed -- Fantasia on "The tempest". Its performance at the opera -- A violent distraction. F.H. ; Mademoiselle M. -- Fourth competition at the conservatoire. I obtain the prize ; The revolution of July ; The taking of Babylon ; "La marseillaise" ; Rouget de Lisle -- Distribution of prizes at the conservatoire. The academicians ; "Sardanapalus" ; Its performance ; The conflagration won't burn ; My fury ; Mdme. Malibran's terror -- My second concert. The "Symphonie fantastique" ; Liszt pays me a visit ; The beginning of our friendship ; The Parisian critics ; Cherubini's mot ; I start for Italy -- Marseilles to Leghorn. Storm ; Leghorn to Rome ; The Academie de France in Rome -- The scholars of the academy. Mendelssohn -- Drama. I leave Rome ; From Florence to Nice ; I return to Rome ; Nobody killed ; Unloaded pistols have been known to go off ; On the other hand, loaded pistols often miss fire -- The theatres at Genoa and Florence. Bellini's "I Montecchi ed I Capuletti" ; Romeo played by a woman ; Pacini's "La vestale" ; Licinius played by a woman ; The organist at Florence ; The feast of Corpus Domini ; I return to the academy -- Life at the academy. Walks in the Abruzzi mountains ; St. Peter's ; "Le spleen" ; Excursions into the campagna ; The carnival ; The piazza navone -- Sport in the mountains. The campagna once more ; Virgilian recollections ; Wild Italy ; Regrets ; The balls in the osteria ; My guitar -- Subiaco. The convent of St. Benedict ; A serenade ; Civitella ; My gun ; My friend Crispino -- Life of a musician in Rome. The music in St. Peter's ; The Sistine chapel ; Prejudice against Palestrina ; Modern religious music in the church of St. Louis ; The opera-houses ; Mozart and Vaccai ; The Pifferari ; Compositions at Rome -- The spleen. Its varieties ; Isolation -- Naples. An enthusiastic soldier ; Excursion to Nisida ; The Lazzaroni ; An invitation to dinner ; The crack of a whip ; The San Carlo theatre ; Return to Rome across the Abruzzi ; Tivoli ; Virgil again -- Influenza in Rome. New system of philosophy ; Hunting ; Domestic troubles ; Return to France -- Florence. A funeral ; La Bella Sposina ; The gay Florentine ; Lodi ; Milan ; The theatre of the Cannobiana ; The public ; Musical organization of the Italians ; Love of platitudes and vocalization ; Return to France -- The papal censorship. Preparations for concerts ; Return to Paris ; The New English theatre ; Fetis ; His corrections of Beethoven's symphonies ; I am introduced to Miss Smithson ; She is ruined ; Breaks her leg ; I marry her -- Benefit and concert at the Theatre-Italien. The fourth act of "Hamlet" ; "Antony" ; Defection of the orchestra ; Revenge ; Visit from Paganini ; His viola ; "Harold en Italie" ; Girard's mistakes ; I conduct the performance ; Anonymous letter -- An order for a requiem. The directors of the fine arts ; Their opinions on music ; Break their word ; The capture of Constantine ; Intrigues of Cherubini, etc. ; My requiem performed ; Habeneck's snuff-box ; I am not paid ; They wish to sell me the cross ; All kinds of ignominy ; Fury ; Threats ; I am paid -- Performance of my "Lacrymosa" at Lille. A little pill for Cherubini ; He plays me a nice trick ; A Roland for his Oliver ; I join the "Journal des debats" ; Painful results -- Mdlle. Bertin's "Esmeralda". Rehearsals of "Benvenuto Cellini" ; Its glaring failure ; The "Carnaval Romain" ; Overture ; Habeneck ; Duprez ; Legouve -- Concert of December 16, 1838. Paganini's letter and present ; My wife's religious fervour ; Fury, congratulations, and scandals ; My visit to Paganini ; His departure ; I write "Romeo and Juliet" ; Criticisms on the work -- Order from M. De Remusat to write the "Symphonie funebtre et triomphale" ; Its performance ; Popularity in Paris ; Habeneck's mot ; Spontini?s epithet for the work ; His mistake about the "Requiem" -- Brussels. My domestic storms ; The Belgians ; Zani de Ferranti ; Fetis ; His serious blunder ; A festival at the Paris opera ; Habeneck's conspiracy foiled ; Fracas in M. De Girardin's box ; How to make a fortune ; Start for Germany -- |
| Contents | First visit to Germany (1842-1843). Brussels. Mainz ; Frankfort. Letter I - to Monsieur A. Morel -- Stuttgart. Hechingen. Letter II - to Monsieur Girard -- Mannheim. Weimar. Letter III - to Liszt -- Leipzig. Letter IV - to Stephen Heller -- Dresden. Letter V - to Ernst -- Brunswick. Hamburg. Letter VI - to Henri Heine -- Berlin. Letter VII - to Monsieur Habeneck -- Berlin. Letter IX - to Monsieur Desmarest -- Hanover. Darmstadt. Letter X - to Mr. G. A. Osborne -- I get up "Freischutz" for the opera. My recitatives ; The singers ; Dessauer ; M. Leon Pillet ; Havoc made by his successors in Weber's work -- I am forced to write articles. My despair ; Thoughts of suicide ; Revival of industry ; 1022 performers ; Receipts, 32,000 francs ; Profit, 800 francs ; M. Delessert, prefect of police ; Censorship of concert programmes established ; Hospital collectors ; Dr. Amussat ; Journey to Nice ; Concerts in the circus of Champs-Elysees -- Second visit to Germany (Austria - Bohemia - Hungary). Vienna. Letter I - to Monsieur Humbert Ferrand -- Vienna (continued). Letter II - to Monsieur Humbert Ferrand -- Pesth. Letter III - to Monsieur Humbert Ferrand -- Prague. Letter IV. To Monsieur Humbert Ferrand -- Prague (continued). Letter V - to Monsieur Humbert Ferrand -- Prague (conclusion). Letter VI - to Monsieur Humbert Ferrand -- Concert at Breslau. "The damnation of Faust" ; Patriotic German critics ; Production of the work at Paris ; Resolution to visit Russia ; Kindness of friends -- Russian journey. A Prussian musical courier ; M. Nernst ; Sledges ; Snow ; The counts Wielhorski ; General Lwoff ; My first concert ; The empress ; I make my fortune ; Journey to Moscow ; Ludicrous obstacle ; The grand marshal ; Youthful melomaniacs ; Cannons at the Kremlin -- Return to St. Petersburg. Two performance of "Romeo and Juliet" ; Romeo in his cabriolet ; Ernst ; His talent ; Retroactive effect of music -- My return. Riga ; Berlin ; Performance of "Faust" ; Dinner at Sans Souci ; The King of Prussia -- Paris. I have Roqueplan and Duponchel nominated as directors of the opera ; Their gratitude ; "La nonne sanglante" ; I go to London ; Jullien, manager of Drury Lane ; Scribe ; The priest must live by the altar -- My father's death. Another journey to the Cote-Saint-Andre ; Excursion to Meylan ; Devastating loneliness ; Stella Del Monte again ; I write to her -- Death of my sister. And of my wife ; Her funeral ; The Odeon ; My position in the musical world ; Impossibility of braving the hatred felt for me ; Cabal at Covent Garden ; The coterie at the Paris conservatoire ; A symphony dreamed and forgotten ; Charming welcome in Germany ; The King of Hanover ; The Duke of Weimar ; The King of Saxony's intendant ; My farewells -- Postscript. Letter to M., accompanying the Ms. of my memoirs, in reply to his request for notes for my biography -- Supplement. I have finished ; The institute ; Concerts at the Palais de L'Industrie ; Jullien ; The diapason of eternity ; "Les troyens" in Paris ; "Beatrice et Benedict" at Baden and Weimar ; Excursion to Lowenberg ; Concerts at the conservatoire ; Festival at Strasburg ; Death of my second wife ; Cemeteries ; To the devil with everything -- The last chapter of all. Visity to Dauphiny ; Second pilgrimage to Meylan ; A day at Lyons ; I see Madame F ; Again ; Convulsions of heart. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 32031719 |
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