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Berlioz - Servitude and Greatness 1832-1869 by David Cairns
Category: Performing Arts
Berlioz was one of the towering figures of Romanticism: not only was he a great and revolutionary composer, but also the finest composer of his day and an outstanding critic and writer. Yet throughout his life he struggled for money and his music was persistently reviled in his native France. With excep ...Show more
Berlioz - The Making of an Artist 1803-1832 by David Cairns
Category: Performing Arts
No artist's achievement connects more directly with early experience than that of Berlioz. David Cairns draws on a wealth of family papers to recreate in authentic and intimate detail the provincial milieu of Berlioz's boyhood, showing how the son of a village doctor was already transforming himself int ...Show more
The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz by David Cairns (Translator, Editor); Berlioz
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Everyman's Library
Hector Berlioz' (1803-69) autobiography is both an account of his important place in the rise of the Romantic movement and a personal testament. He tells the story of his liaison with Harriet Smithson, and his even more passionate affairs of the mind with Shakespeare, Scott, and Byron. Familiar with all ...Show more
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