| Contents |
Volume 1. Berlioz as man and artist -- France. Time, place, persons -- Ce qu'on entend sur la Montagne -- Opera and conservatoire -- Faustian man -- Revolution in July -- Reveries and passions: Symphonie Fantastique -- Program music and the unicorn -- Italy. Roman holiday: Lelio -- Recollected in tranquility: Harold in Italy -- The gothic tradition: Requiem Mass -- The hero as artist: Benvenuto Cellini -- The dramatic symphony: Romeo and Juliet -- Vox populi: Funeral and Triumphal Symphony -- The century of Romanticism -- Germany. Music for Europe: A Travers Chants -- The art of composition: The Treatise -- Form and philosophy: The Damnation of Faust -- Song in time of revolution -- Vision of a virtuoso: Te Deum. |
| Contents |
Volume II. Berlioz in 1867 -- Berlioz in 1850, by Courbet -- Berlioz conducting, by Dore -- Berlioz in a familiar pose -- Berlioz imagined by Daumier -- Berlioz playing the guitar -- Louis Berlioz, aged about thirty -- Death bust / S. Lami -- Eminent Berliozians: 1890-1950. |
| Abstract |
The author recounts the events and extraordinary achievements of the great composer's life against the background of the romantic era. As the author eloquently demonstrates, Berloiz was an archetype whose destiny was the story of an age, the incarnation of an artistic style and a historical spirit. "In order to understand the nineteenth century, it is essential to understand Berlioz," notes W. H. Auden, "and in order to understand Berlioz, it is essential to read Professor Barzun." |
| General note | "An Atlantic Monthly Press book." |
| General note | "Errors in the 'complete' edition of the scores": volume 2, p. 336-359. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (volume 2, pages 377-450) and index. |
| LCCN | 50007935 |
