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Title: Berlioz: Scenes from the Life and Work
Condition: New
ISBN-10: 158046209X
EAN: 9781580462099
ISBN: 9781580462099
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 20/03/2008
Description: 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).
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Contributor: Peter Bloom (Edited by), Alastair Bruce (Contributions by), David Cairns (Contributions by), Frank Heidlberger (Contributions by), Gerard Conde (Contributions by), Gunther Braam (Contributions by), Hugh Macdonald (Contributions by), Jacques Barzun (Contributions by), Jean-Pierre Bartoli (Contributions by), Joel-Marie Fauquet (Contributions by), Julian Rushton (Contributions by), Pepijn van Doesburg (Contributions by), Peter Bloom (Contributions by)
Genre: Music Dance & Theatre
Book Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Item Weight: 1g
Author: Peter Bloom
Release Year: 2008

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