10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BERLIOZ»
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Young music fans will learn in this brief biography that Berlioz was influenced all his life by the music and singing he heard at his first communion, and that his father was a doctor and wanted him to become one too.
Yann Walcker, Christian Wasselin, 2002
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Berlioz: Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness, 1832-1869
Covers the life of the French composer, including his struggle to establish himself in Paris and how his work was created.
A biography of the nineteenth-century composer, discussing his personal and professional life as well as analyzing his compositions and contributions to music
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Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise: A Translation and Commentary
Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise is a classic textbook which has been used as a guide to orchestration and as a source book for the understanding both of Berlioz's music and of orchestral practice in the nineteenth century.
Berlioz, Hugh Macdonald, 2002
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.
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Memoirs of Hector
Berlioz: From 1803 to 1865, Comprising His ...
Self-revelations of tormented great composer; musical life in Paris, Wagner and other contemporaries, musical opinions, much more. 11 plates.
Hector Berlioz, Ernest Newman, 1932
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The Art of Music and Other Essays
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.
Hector Berlioz, Elizabeth Csicsery-Rónay, 1994
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Berlioz, Roméo Et Juliette
This book examines the complex genesis of Berlioz's Romeo et Juliette as well as the music itself.
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Berlioz, Vol. 1: The Making of an Artist, 1803-1832
"David Cairns's BERLIOZ wins this year's Whitbread Biography Award for his masterly evocation of the inner man as well as the outer world in which he lived and worked.The judges felt that this biography is a work of art in itself which will ...
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The Cambridge Companion to
Berlioz
Provides a comprehensive view of Berlioz the man, the composer, the critic and the writer.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BERLIOZ»
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In Line For Berlioz: Tales from the Standing Room Operagoer
That evening is the final, and sold-out, performance of Hector Berlioz' infrequently staged, five-and-one-half hour epic Les Troyens. Some folks ... «San Francisco Classical Voice, Jul 15»
Gioachino Rossini: Guillaume Tell review – hits the mark, despite …
The score expresses it with restless shuddering from minor to major keys, excited choruses and genius orchestration that even Berlioz – a ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Afloat Once More on San Francisco Opera's Show Boat...and in Its …
... attending San Francisco Opera's terrific production of The Trojans, with its gorgeous music by Hector Berlioz, monumental sets and some of ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
Music Review: Storytelling at VSO pops
Still, the most exciting performance — preceded by Princiotti's inimitable storytelling — was the finale, “Witch's Sabbath,” from Berlioz's ... «Rutland Herald, Jul 15»
Monstrous fun: the community opera with a cast of hundreds
Dramatic, huge and complex works by Berlioz, Mendelssohn and Verdi were also performed by enormous choirs. The Birmingham Triennial ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
One week to go: seven reasons to buy EURO tickets - News - UEFA …
France is a land of great artists, composers and architects: Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, Hector Berlioz, Maurice Ravel, Le Corbusier. «UEFA.com, Jul 15»
Six fascinating facts about Nielsen
Beethoven, Michelangelo, Bach, Berlioz, Rembrandt, Shakespeare, Goethe, Ibsen and the like have all given their times a black eye.' 4. «Classical-Music.com, Jul 15»
Montpellier Danse 2015, Montpellier, France — review
At the Opéra Berlioz, Montpellier Danse welcomed Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin. Last Work, created last month, again shows Batsheva ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
Music Academy of the West's First Show of the Festival
In Berlioz's Overture to Beatrice and Benedict, I was first transported to English meadows with plum trees, and then when Rachleff turned up the ... «Santa Barbara Independent, Jul 15»
Rape as Weapon of War: San Francisco Opera's World Premiere of …
Antonacci is a beauty who has created sensations with the roles of Carmen (Bizet) and Cassandra (Berlioz). She managed seemingly ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
