Berlioz and the Romantic Century. Volume I / / Jacques Barzun.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Barzun, Jacques,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1969]; ©1969
• Year of Publication: 1969
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1118 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Author’s Note --; Preface to the Third Edition --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Volume One --; Introduction. Berlioz as Man and Artist --; France --; 1. Time, Place, Persons --; 2. Ce Qu’ on Entend sur la Montagne --; 3. Opera and Conservatoire --; 4. Faustian Man --; 5. Revolution in July --; 6. Reveries and Passions: Symphonie Fantastique --; 7. Interchapter: Program Music and the Unicorn --; Italy --; 8. Roman Holiday: Lélio --; 9. Recollected in Tranquillity: Harold in Italy --; 10. The Gothic Tradition: Requiem Mass --; 11. The Hero as Artist: Benvenuto Cellini --; 12. The Dramatic Symphony: Romeo and Juliet --; 13. Vox Populi: Funeral and Triumphal Symphony --; 14. Interchapter: The Century of Romanticism --; Germany --; 15. Music for Europe: A Travers Chants --; 16. The Art of Composition: The Treatise --; 17. Form and Philosophy: The Damnation of Faust --; 18. Song in Time of Revolution --; 19. Vision of a Virtuoso: Te Deum --; Volume Two --; Frontmatter II --; 20. Interchapter: Memoirs of Art and Life --; England, Germany, and Russia --; 21. Victorian London: Evenings with the Orchestra --; 22. Religious History: L’Enfance du Christ --; 23. Virgilian Music Drama: Les Troyens --; 24. Esthetes Abroad: Wagner, Liszt, and the Princess --; 25. Prospero’ s Farewell: Beatrice and Benedict --; 26. Empire and Industry: Les Grotesques --; 27. Holy Russia and Giddy France: 33 Melodies --; 28. Memory’s End --; Supplements --; 1. Berlioz’ Afterfame --; 2. Biographer’s Fallacy: Boschot’s Berlioz --; 3. Desiderata; Present State of Berlioz Studies (1949) --; 4. Euphonia and Bayreuth: Musical Cities --; 5. Berlioz on the Future of Rhythm --; 6. The Fetish of Form --; Chronology --; Berlioz’ Domiciles --; Errors in the “ Complete” Edition of the Scores --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231878937; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/barz90476
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jacques Barzun.

A biography of Hector Berlioz that includes a record guide on twelve of his works, an essay on aesthetics, and an account of nineteenth-century culture.