The Art of Music and Other Essays: (A Travers Chants) - Rilegato

Berlioz, Hector

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ISBN 10: 0253311640 ISBN 13: 9780253311641

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 1994

Riassunto

Berlioz the person-composer-writer is the sensitive child of his century and a most passionate voice of his time." —The Opera Quarterly

Berlioz could hardly have been better served than by the translator of this English edition... It is an invaluable and long-overdue addition to the Berlioz literature in English. Elisabeth Csicsery-Rónay has given us an A travers chants for the millennium." —Music and Letters

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was equally prominent as composer and music critic. A Travers Chants is the collection of writings he himself selected from his thirty-odd years of musical journalism. This new translation, phrased in lively, idiomatic English and annotated for the twentieth-century reader, is illustrated with lithographs and drawings from Berlioz’s lifetime.

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L'autore:

ELIZABETH CSICSERY-RÓNAY, based in Brussels, is a translator of both French and Hungarian. Her articles and music reviews have been published in Berlioz Society Bulletin, Opera News, and Musical America.

ELIZABETH CSICSERY-RÓNAY, based in Brussels, is a translator of both Frenchand Hungarian. Her articles and music reviews have been published in Berlioz Society Bulletin, OperaNews, and Musical America.

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Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was equally prominent as composer and author. According to Harold Schonberg, he was the ""foremost music critic of his time, possibly of all time"". A Travers Chants is the collection of writings he himself selected from his thirty-odd years of musical journalism. 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. There is an eloquent plea to stop the constant rise in concert pitch (an issue still discussed today), a serious piece on the place of music in church, and a humorous and imaginative account of musical customs in China. But Berlioz's writings also contain biting satire and ridicule - of opera singers, of the Academy, of dilettantism. This new translation, phrased in lively, idiomatic English and annotated for the twentieth-century reader, is illustrated with lithographs and drawings from Berlioz's lifetime. Berlioz's writings are a treasure-house of information on nineteenth-century musical life, performance practice, and taste.

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• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0253311640
• ISBN 13: 9780253311641
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 274