THE LIFE OF HECTOR BERLIOZ. As Written by Himself in His Letters and Memoirs. Translated from the French, with an introduction by Katharine F. Boult, 12mo. Pp., xviii. -305.

Critics bayed for Hector Berlioz’s blood whenever his music was played but happily for the composer, today it’s their reputations and not his in the guillotine. Hector Berlioz was a one-off – a genius ...

It took a long time for the great French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz to win his place among the immortals. When he died in 1869 he was a broken and embittered man, worn out from decades of ...

THAT M. Adolphe Jullien should have followed up his Life of Wagner with a similar Life of Berlioz 1 is one of the things which, as he himself more than half admits, may fairly be called fated. As ...

Hector Berlioz’s love life, from a Clare actress to a singer who miaowed. The composer’s work was informed by his many amorous adventures and the Romantic poetry of Théophile Gautier.

Hector Berlioz: His contemporaries were unsure how his work was to be understood. It has been 200 years since the birth of Hector Berlioz, and he remains every bit as perplexing a composer as he ...

Donald Macleod explores the life and music of Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is perhaps unique among composers in having had a literary gift almost the equal of his musical one.

Hector Berlioz's LES TROYENS to be Presented at Seattle Opera This Winter Performances will take place on January 17 & 19, 2025 at McCaw Hall. By: Chloe Rabinowitz Dec. 05, 2024 ...

As announced in the preface to his Hector Berlioz, Mr. Apthorp’s aim has been “ to show what the man was, rather than what he did.” The work is practically divided into three parts: first, a ...