An edition of A travers chants (1862)

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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Hector Berlioz
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An edition of A travers chants (1862)

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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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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Edition Notes

Selections from the composer's A travers chants.

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London, St. Clair Shores, Mich
Other Titles
Critical study of Beethoven's 9 symphonies.

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Dewey Decimal Class
785.1/1/0924
Library of Congress
ML410.B5 A543 1977

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Pagination
165 p. ;
Number of pages
165

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OL5709164M
ISBN 10
0403015081
LCCN
70181109
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5478300

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