Autobiography of Hector Berlioz Volume 1

Contents

• Preface;
• 1. La Cote St. Andre;
• 2. My father;
• 3. Meylan;
• 4. First music lessons from my father;
• 5. A year of medical studies;
• 6. I become one of Lesueur's pupils;
• 7. A first opera;
• 8. Augustin de Pons;
• 9. First interview with Cherubini;
• 10. My father withdraws my allowance;
• 11. I return to Paris;
• 12. I compete for a place as chorus singer, and get it;
• 13. First composition for the orchestra;
• 14. Competition at the Conservatoire;
• 15. Evenings at the Opera;
• 16. Weber at the Odeon;
• 17. Prejudice against operas with Italian words;
• 18. Shakespeare;
• 19. A futile concert;
• 20. Beethoven at the Conservatoire;
• 21. Fatality;
• 22. The competition for musical composition;
• 23. The Academy porter;
• 24. Miss Smithson again;
• 25. My third trial at the Conservatoire;
• 26. I read Goethe's Faust for the first time;
• 27. Fantasia on The Tempest;
• 28. A violent distraction;
• 29. Fourth competition at the Conservatoire;
• 30. Distribution of prizes at the Conservatoire;
• 31. My second concert;
• 32. Marseilles to Leghorn;
• 33. The scholars of the Academy;
• 34. Drama;
• 35. The theatres at Genoa and Florence;
• 36. Life at the Academy;
• 37. Sport in the mountains;
• 38. Subiaco;
• 39. Life of a musician in Rome;
• 40. The spleen;
• 41. Naples;
• 42. Influenza in Rome;
• 43. Florence;
• 44. The Censorship;
• 45. Benefit and concert at the Theatre Italien;
• 46. An order for a requiem;
• 47. Performance of my Lacrymosa at Lille;
• 48. Mdlle. Bertin's Esmeralda;
• 49. Concert of December 16, 1838;
• 50. Order from M. de Remusat to write the Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale;
• 51. Brussels.