Berlioz on Music: Selected Criticism 1824-1837

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1. MUSICAL POLEMIC: On Dilettanti
2. MUSICAL POLEMIC: On Armide and Gluck
3. THE ARTS. Observations on Classical Music and Romantic Music, Le Correspondant, October 22, 1830
4. Beethoven and the Egyptian Pyramids
Weber's Freischutz
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
5. Liszt, Chopin, and Ferdinand Hiller
launching of the Fantastic Symphony
6. MUSIC REVIEW: Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Theatre-Italien
Beethoven quartets
7. MUSIC REVIEW: Beethoven by the Muller Quartet
Chopin
Mozart's Don Giovanni vs. Don Juan
Handel festival in London
8. MUSIC REVIEW: Women performers
violinist Hauman's communicative emotion
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Shakespeare's Othello
Cherubini aria sung by Ponchard
rarity of great singers
9. Gluck (Part I). Gazette musicale de Paris, June 1, 1834. Biographical sketch
critique admirative of monologue from Il Telemaco
10. MUSIC REVIEW: Turkish music
Beethoven's Eroica booed in Bordeaux
musical conditions in the provinces
oasis of progress in Lyon
11. MUSIC REVIEW: Jealousy vs. solidarity among artists
trials of young composers
ironies on Conservatoire training
Henri Reber quartets
Liszt performs in his piano trio
12. Music Review: Choron, voice teacher and propagator of sacred music of the past
funeral service at the Invalides: Mozart Requiem, Jommelli, and Palestrina
13. Funeral service for Choron
Decline of religious music in France
destruction of old-regime choir schools
church ban on women singers
14. Rossini's William Tell (Part I)
15. BOIELDIEU: Funeral music for Boieldieu
survey of requiems
Cherubini
16. NOTICE TO READERS IDLE ENOUGH TO READ MY ARTICLES: Satirical announcement of Berlioz's upcoming concert, conducted by Girard
amusing summary of Harold in Italy
17. IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS (Part I): Early enthusiasm for Gluck
life-changing first experience of Gluck's masterpiece at the Opera (1821).
18. Music review: a Elle, Letters for Piano by Chretien Urhan
19. THEATRE-ITALIEN: Gabussi's Ernani
20. MUSIC REVIEW. OPeRA. William Tell. OPeRA-COMIQUE: Zemire et Azor (reprise).
21. CONCERT SOCIETY OF THE CONSERVATOIRE: First Concert [8th season]
22. LE MOINE, text by emilien Pacini, music by G. Meyerbeer
23. THIRD CONCERT AT THE CONSERVATOIRE: Symphonies by Haydn and Beethoven
24. Music REVIEW: Royal Academy of Music: Premiere of la Juive, opera in five acts by MM.
25. Music Review. Concert by the Pupils of Choron at the Hotel de Ville
26. CONCERT SOCIETY OF THE CONSERVATOIRE: Fourth Concert, Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
27. SIXTH CONSERVATOIRE CONCERT: Analysis of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
28. CONCERT BY M. LISZT
29. REQUIEM at the Invalides
30. ON THE SCORE OF ZAMPA
31. MUSIC REVIEW: Bellini's I Puritani at the Theatre-Italien, Cherubini's Treatise on Counterpoint-or a volume of poetry by Chaudesaigues
32. MOZART'S DON JUAN
33. Religious Music: M. Lesueur: Rachel, Noemie, Ruth et Booz, oratorios
M. Urhan: Auditions
34. OPERA-Comique. Concerts. Virtuosos and composers
35. First concert [of the season] at the Conservatoire: scene from Mozart's Idomeneo eclipses Beethoven's Seventh Symphony
36. LES HUGUENOTS: Acts 4 and 5
37. Concerts at the Conservatoire: The Magic Flute and The Mysteries of Isis
38. LISZT
39. ANTOINE REICHA
40. MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENTS: Le Siege de Corinthe at the Opera
M. Ole Bull
M. Labarre and his harp school
Music of public festivals
41. PROGRESS OF MUSICAL EDUCATION IN FRANCE: M. Joseph Mainzer and M. Aubery du Boulley
42. Polytechnical Society: Awards ceremony
43. OPera: William Tell. Debut of Duprez
44. Royal Academy of Music: Premiere of La Chatte metamorphosee en femme, ballet

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As a composer, Hector Berlioz embodied his century as the quintessential Romantic artist. Niccolo Paganini called him "Beethoven's only heir," and for a young Richard Wagner, he was dazzling as a composer, orchestra conductor, and critic. But Berlioz was known as much for his writings as for his music, and for decades Berlioz scholars have stressed the need for a good English-language anthology of his criticism. Featuring new translations and commentary by Katherine Kolb and Samuel N. Rosenberg, Berlioz on Music: Selected Criticism 1824-1837 is that volume. Berlioz's centrality as a critic results from his literary brilliance, his location in Paris -- the music capital of the nineteenth century -- and his 28-year tenure at the powerful Journal des debats. As one of its founding editors and principal writers, Berlioz contributed about 250 articles to the publication. Berlioz on Music comprises articles from the first 14 years of Berlioz's public writings, given in chronological order and, with few exceptions, in their entirety. Following chronology affords an overview of Berlioz's evolution as critic and of a key phase in the development of modern musical culture. The volume also presents explanatory data in engagingly composed introductions and footnotes, which elucidate Berlioz's references to persons, musical and literary works, historical events, and more. The reader is allowed to follow musical events during one of the richest periods in French cultural history, including the revolutionary decade surrounding 1830, a year marked by Victor Hugo's victory for the Romantics in the Classical bastion of the Théâtre-Français, by the premiere of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony, and by the toppling of the Restoration monarchy. The result is an engaging collection of Berlioz's lively prose, presented with scholarly rigor and rendered in accessible English. Music historians, both professional and amateur, as well 19th century European history enthusiasts will find Berlioz on Music a compelling introduction to one of the richest periods of French culture.

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