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Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was equally prominent as composer and author. According to Harold Schonberg, he was the "foremost music critic of his time, possibly of all time." A Travers Chants is the collection of writings he himself selected from his thirty-odd years of musical journalism.
These essays cover a wide spectrum of intellectual inquiry: Beethoven's nine symphonies and his opera, Fidelio; Wagner and the partisans of the "Music of the Future"; Berlioz's idols - Gluck, Weber, and Mozart. There is an eloquent plea to stop the constant rise in concert pitch (an issue still discussed today), a serious piece on the place of music in church, and a humorous and imaginative account of musical customs in China.
But Berlioz's writings also contain biting satire and ridicule - of opera singers, of the Academy, of dilettantism. This new translation, phrased in lively, idiomatic English and annotated for the twentieth-century reader, is illustrated with lithographs and drawings from Berlioz's lifetime. Berlioz's writings are a treasure-house of information on nineteenth-century musical life, performance practice, and taste.
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Criticism and interpretation, France, History and criticism, Music, Musical criticism, Opera, Symphony, Music, history and criticism, Gluck, christoph willibald, ritter von, 1714-1787, Opera, france, Beethoven, ludwig van, 1770-1827, Music, history and criticism, 19th century, Music, history and criticism, 18th centuryPeople
Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), Christoph Willibald Gluck Ritter von (1714-1787), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)Times
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Mozart, Weber and Wagner
January 2001, Library Reprints
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A Critical Study of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies
October 19, 2000, University of Illinois Press
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- 1st Paperback Ed edition
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The art of music and other essays =: (A travers chants)
1994, Indiana University Press
in English
0253311640 9780253311641
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The art of music and other essays: (A travers chants)
1994, Indiana University Press
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A critical study of Beethoven's nine symphonies: with "A few words on his trios and sonatas", a criticism of "Fidelio" and an introductory essay on music
1990, Native American Book Publishers
in English
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A critical study of Beethoven's nine symphonies: with a few words on his trios and sonatas, a criticism of Fidelio, and an introductory essay on music.
1977, W. Reeves, Scholarly Press
in English
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Gluck & his operas: with an account of their relation to musical art.
1973, Greenwood Press
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Mozart, Weber, and Wagner: with various essays on musical subjects.
1969, William Reeves
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A Travers Chants
December 1968, Gregg International
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057628422X 9780576284226
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A critical study of Beethoven's nine symphonies: with "a few words on his trios and sonatas," a criticism of "Fidelio" and an introductory essay on music
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A travers chants: e tudes musicales, adorations, boutades et critiques.
1906, Calmann-Le vy
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A travers chants: études musicales, adorations, boutades et critiques
1886, Calmann Lévy
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A travers chants: études musicales, adorations, boutades et critiques
1880, C. Lévy
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A travers chants: études musicales, adorations, boutades et critiques
1880, Calmann Lévy
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Mozart, Weber and Wagner: with various essays on musical subjects
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A travers chants: études musicales, adorations, boutades et critiques
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