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Berlioz and His World

Berlioz and His World

Hibberd, Sarah
Brittan, Francesca

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Series: Bard Music Festival

Classical MusicGeneral MusicMusic Reference

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ISBN10: 0226837661
ISBN13: 9780226837666
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Aug 5 2024
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
A collection of essays and short object lessons on the composer Hector Berlioz, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) has long been a difficult figure to place and interpret. Famously, in Richard Wagner's estimation, he hovered as a transient, marvelous exception, a composer woefully and willfully isolated. In the assessment of German composer Ferdinand Hiller, he was a fleeting comet who does not belong in our musical solar system, the likes of whom would never be seen again. For his contemporaries, as for later critics, Berlioz was simply too strange--and too noisy, too loud, too German, too literary, too cavalier with genre and form, and too difficult to analyze. He was, in many ways, a composer without a world.

Berlioz and His World takes a deep dive into the composer's complex legacy, tracing lines between his musical and literary output and the scientific, sociological, technological, and political influences that shaped him. Comprising nine essays covering key facets of Berlioz's contribution and six short object lessons meant as conversation starters, the book reveals Berlioz as a richly intersectional figure. His very difficulty, his tendency to straddle the worlds of composer, conductor, and critic, is revealed as a strength, inviting new lines of cross-disciplinary inquiry and a fresh look at his European and American reception.

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