Roger Nichols

Berlioz the Critic (eBook, ePUB)

Selected Writings from 1837 to 1850
Redaktion: Rushton, Julian / Übersetzer: Nichols, Roger

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hector Berlioz combined writing music with lively and informed music criticism. This collection of articles, engagingly translated by Roger Nichols, covers the middle years of his critical career.

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Berlioz's music criticism from 1837 to 1850 covers a period druing which he composed some of his finest works, and travelled abroad to perform them before appreciative audiences in Germany, Russia, and England. Roger Nichols has chosen and translated extracts from fifty-eight articles of particular interest, with commentary and notes identifying people mentioned. Berlioz scholars Peter Bloom and Julian Rushton provide an informative introduction and a comprehensive editorial apparatus.

In the selected articles Berlioz discusses Paris performances of early and modern music, including new operas and revivals, and concerts at the Paris Conservatoire. He comments freely but with understanding on conductors, singers and instrumentalists. The essays demonstrate the composer's concern with innovation in the design of musical instruments and assess the quality of performing venues. Berlioz writes on the musical life of London, France, and Germany, most entertainingly about the inauguration of statues of Beethoven and Rossini. The selection is framed by major articles on "Imitation in Music" and on Gluck's opera Alceste.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805433750
• Artikelnr.: 74224055

Autorenporträt

Translated by Roger Nichols, edited by Julian Rushton, Introduction by Peter Bloom

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Preface and Acknowledgments Sources and Abbreviations Used in
the Text and Notes Editor's Note Introduction by Peter Bloom The Articles:
1. On Imitation in Music (I) 2. On Imitation in Music (II) 3. Ninth
Conservatoire Concert. Beethoven's Eroica and Taste in General 4.
Esmeralda: on Fair Artistic Judgement 5. Paris Opéra: Revival of Le Siège
de Corinthe 6. Third Conservatoire Concert; the Critic's Life 7. Le nozze
de Figaro; Benefit Performance for Lablache 8. Second Concert of the
Gazette musicale. Pauline Garcia; Gluck's Orphée 9. Adolphe Nourrit 10.
Musical Instruments; Exhibition of Industrial Products 11. Premiere of
Lucie de Lammermoor 12. Letter to Liszt: Music in Paris and London 13.
Kastner's Treatise on Instrumentation 14. Miscellanea; Pauline Viardot at
the Théâtre-Italien 15. First Conservatoire Concert; Gluck, his Critics,
and Early Music (I) 16. First Conservatoire Concert; Early Music (II) 17.
Paris Opéra: Revival of Fernand Cortez; Liszt and Batta in London 18. Third
Conservatoire Concert; Haydn, Rossini, Viardot 19. Paris Opéra: Revival of
Don Giovanni I 20. Liszt's Concerts 21. Paris Opéra: Revival of Don
Giovanni II 22. Liszt's Concert at the Conservatoire 23. Poultier's Debut
in Guillaume Tell 24. The Saint-Denis Organ 25. Fourth Conservatoire
Concert 26. Cherubini 27. Sixth Conservatoire Concert 28. Thalberg's
Concerts 29. German Theatre; First Performance of Jessonda 30. Castor et
Pollux; the Score 31. Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique: Revival of Le Déserteur
32. M. Berlioz's Concert at the Théâtre-Italien 33. Théâtre de l'Odéon.
Premiere of Mendelssohn's Antigone 34. Large-scale Concert at the Opéra:
the 'Droit des pauvres' 35. Michel de Glinka 36. Conservatoire Concert.
Spontini: La Vestale 37. Cherubini's Messe du Sacre 38. Music Festival in
Bonn; the Beethoven Statue 39. New Method of Instrumental Practice 40.
Inauguration of Rossini's Statue 41. Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique: Revival of
Zémire et Azor 42. On the Harmonium 43. Paris Opéra. Premiere of Rossini:
Robert the Bruce 44. Adolphe Sax's New Concert Hall 45. To M. Friedland;
Musical Life in London 46. Opening of the Théâtre de la Nation 47. The
Opéra; Mme de Lagrange's Debut; Otello 48. Distribution of Prizes at the
Conservatoire (the Current State of French Music) 49. Théâtre de
l'Opéra-Comique; Premiere of Ambroise Thomas: Le Caïd 50. Second Séance of
the Société des Concerts; Beethoven, Haydn, and others 51. Third Séance of
the Société des Concerts; Scene in the rue Bergère 52. Sixth Séance of the
Société des Concerts; a Composer's Rights 53. Musical Instruments and the
'Droit des pauvres' 54. The Death of Johann Strauss 55. The Death of Chopin
56. A Method of Telephony by M. Sudre 57. Niedermeyer's Messe solennelle
58. Gluck's Alceste Index of Names