| Series |
Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989
Eastman studies in music. 1071-9989 ^A494093
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| Contents |
Foreword. Talking about Berlioz / Peter Bloom -- Berlioz on Berlioz. Berlioz's Berlioz / Peter Gay -- Berlioz and before. Berlioz and early music / Catherine Massip -- Learning the past / David Charlton -- Issues of Berlioz's day and ours. Joseph d'Ortigue's "Autopsy" of Benvenuto Cellini / Sylvia L'Ecuyer -- Plots and politics: Berlioz's tales of sound and fury / Katherine Kolb -- Berlioz, Meyerbeer, and the place of Jewishness in criticism / Kerry Murphy -- Berlioz, Liszt, and the question of virtuosity / Cecile Reynaud -- Berlioz, Ophelia, and feminist hermeneutics / Heather Hadlock -- Berlioz viewed posthumously. Berlioz in 1900: between fervor and fear / Jean-Michel Nectoux -- Berlioz in the fin-de-siecle press / Lesley Wright -- Berlioz forgeries / Richard Macnutt -- Afterword. Fourteen points about Berlioz and the public, or why there is still a Berlioz problem / Jacques Barzun. |
| Abstract |
This far-reaching collection of heretofore unpublished studies ushers in the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). The contributors include leading music historians and two prominent historians of culture, Peter Gay and Jacques Barzun. The essays discuss Berlioz's views of the music of the "past," Berlioz's interactions with music and musicians of his "present," and views of Berlioz during the several generations after his death (the "future"). A long-awaited piece by Richard Macnutt meticulously inventories and investigates more than two hundred letters and documents that are now known to have been forged but that have sometimes been accepted as authentic. Further contributions, from David Charlton, Heather Hadlock, Sylvia L'Ecuyer, Katherine Kolb, Catherine Massip, Kerry Murphy, Jean-Michel Nectoux, Cecile Reynaud, and Lesley Wright, consider specific aspects of Berlioz's creative work and critical reception. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2002034773 |
| ISBN | 158046047X |
