Berlioz

Hugh Macdonald author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

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In this comprehensive life-and-works study, Hugh Macdonald draws on Berlioz's numerous writings - his Memoires, his critical articles, and his extensive correspondence, including many unpublished documents. Berlioz's provincial upbringing, his enthusiasm for Parisian opera and theatre, his marriage to the actress Harriet Smithson, his activities as composer, critic, and conductor, are covered in a biographical section which concludes with a chapter on his character. Discussion of the music is chronological, from the time when Berlioz arrived in Paris in 1821 to study medicine, through the peak of French Romanticism in the 1830's, to the compositions of his later years. In a final chapter Hugh Macdonald traces influences on Berlioz's style and examines his treatment of melody, harmony, and rhythm, and his distinctive orchestral technique.

the best written and most authoritative study which the lover of Berlioz's music could wish for. * Opera *

ISBN: 9780198164838

Dimensions: 124mm x 206mm x 28mm

Weight: 346g

280 pages

3rd Revised edition