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First published 2022

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ISBN-13: 978-1-64825-020-0 (hardback)

ISBN-13: 978-1-80010-521-8 (ePUB)

ISSN: 1071-9989 ; v. 183

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Bloom, Peter, author.

Title: Berlioz in time: from early recognition to lasting renown / Peter Bloom.

Other titles: Eastman studies in music ; v. 183.

9781648250200 (paperback) | ISBN 9781800104532 (ebook other)

Subjects: LCSH: Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. | Berlioz, Hector,

1803-1869--Appreciation. | Composers--France--Biography.

Classification: LCC ML410.B5 .B578 2022 (print) | LCC ML410.B5 (ebook) |

DDC 780.92--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021045209

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021045210

Cover image: Mayer & Pierson, Portrait d’Hector Berlioz, negative on collodion glass plate, Musée Unterlinden, Colmar. Photograph: Christian Kempf. Cover design: riverdesignbooks.com

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Berlioz in Time

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Fourteen revealing essays by a prominent Berlioz authority on some of the composer's acclaimed compositions (the Symphonie fantastique, Les Nuits d'été, Les Troyens) and writings (the celebrated Mémoires). Written for both music lovers and scholars, these essays probe some of Berlioz's major works, including the Symphonie fantastique (the period of whose genesis is newly explored), Les Nuits d'été (whose origins are newly clarified by a revelation regarding Berlioz's possible muse), the Symphonie militaire (whose existence is examined in the period before it became the Symphonie funèbre et triomphale), Les Troyens (whose epilogue is seen as a paean to Napoléon III), and Béatrice et Bénédict (whose text reveals extraordinary understanding of the original play).
The essays consider anew Berlioz's relationships with Franz Liszt (with whom the composer shared intimate details of his marriage to Harriet Smithson) and Richard Wagner (by whom the Frenchman was both charmed and alarmed), his travels in Germany (revealed as having had a specifically administrative purpose), his appreciation of English literature and Shakespeare (on whose work he was considered an expert), his modus operandi in composing the Mémoires, and his major twentieth-century biographers. Of conspicuous concern are the "politics" of a man sometimes erroneously viewed as distant from the political arena.

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Peter Bloom

PublisherUniversity of Rochester Press

Print publication date Mar, 2022

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