| Contents |
Memoirs of art and life -- England, Germany, and Russia. Victorian London: Evenings with the Orchestra -- Religious history: The Infant Christ -- Virgilian music drama: The Trojans -- Esthetes abroad: Wagner, Liszt, and the princess -- Prospero's farewell: Beatrice and Benedict -- Empire and industry: Les Grotesques -- Holy Russia and giddy France: 33 Melodies -- Memory's end -- Supplements. Berlioz's afterframe -- Biographer's fallacy: Boschot's Berlioz -- Desiderata; present state of Berlioz studies -- Euphonia and Bayreuth: musical cities -- Berlioz on the future of rhythm -- The fetish of form -- Berlioz' domiciles. |
| Abstract |
In this monumental study, 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 | "Errors in the 'complete' edition of the scores": volume 2, pages 358-381. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-458) and index. |
| LCCN | 77097504 |
| ISBN | 0231031351 |
