Berlioz: Scenes from the Life and Work

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-58046-209-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 52, 267 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Eastman Studies in Music

New studies of the great French composer by Jacques Barzun, David Cairns, Joël-Marie Fauquet, Hugh Macdonald, Julian Rushton, and other prominent experts.

These twelve essays bring new breadth and depth to our knowledge of the life and work of the composer of the Symphonie fantastique. A distinguished international array of scholars here treat such matters as Berlioz's "aesthetics" and what it means to write about the meaning of his music; the political implications of his fiction and the affinities of his projects as composer and as critic; what the Germans thought of his work before his travels in Germany and what the English made of him when he visited their capital city; what he seems to have written immediately after encountering Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (a surprise), and where he profited from Beethoven in what later became Roméo et Juliette. The volume closes with two reflective essays on Berlioz's literary masterpiece, the Mémoires.

Contributors: Lord Aberdare (Alastair Bruce), Jean-Pierre Bartoli, JacquesBarzun, Peter Bloom, David Cairns, Gunther Braam, Gérard Condé, Pepijn van Doesburg, Joël-Marie Fauquet, Frank Heidlberger, Hugh Macdonald, and Julian Rushton

Peter Bloom (Smith College) is author of The Life of Berlioz (1998) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz (2000).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bloom, Peter

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bruce, Alastair

Cairns, David

Heidlberger, Frank

Conde, Gerard

Braam, Gunther

Macdonald, Hugh

Barzun, Jacques

Bartoli, Jean-Pierre

Fauquet, Joel-Marie

Rushton, Julian

van Doesburg, Pepijn

Bloom, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Romantik (ca. 1830-1900)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Berlioz in the Aftermath of the Bicentenary - Peter Bloom
The Music in the Music of Berlioz - Jacques Barzun
Artistic Religiosity: Berlioz Between the Te Deum and L'Enfance du Christ - Frank Heidlberger
Euphonia and the Utopia of the Orchestra as Society - Joel-Marie Fauquet
Berlioz and the Mezzo-Soprano - Julian Rushton
Berlioz as Composer-Critic - Gerard Conde
A Certain Hector Berlioz: News in Germany of Berlioz in France - Gunther Braam
Berlioz's Lost Roméo et Juliette - Hugh Macdonald
Beethoven, Shakespeare, and Berlioz's Scène d'amour - Jean-Pierre Bartoli
Germany at First - Pepijn van Doesburg
England and Berlioz - Alastair Bruce
Berlioz Writing the Life of Berlioz - Peter Bloom
Berlioz: Autobiography, Biography - David Cairns

Über Autor(innen)

Bloom, Peter
PETER BLOOM is the Grace Jarcho Ross Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Smith College.

Bloom, Peter
PETER BLOOM is the Grace Jarcho Ross Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Smith College.

Macdonald, Hugh
HUGH MACDONALD was the Avis Blewett Professor of Music, Washington University, St Louis from 1987 to 2011. He is the author of many important books, including Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers and Themes (URP, 2008), Music in 1853: the Biography of a Year (Boydell Press, 2012), and Saint-Saëns and the Stage (CUP, 2019).

Rushton, Julian
JULIAN RUSHTON is Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Leeds, UK.