| Edition |
[Rev. ed.]. |
| Description |
448 pages ; 18 cm. |
| Series |
Meridian books ; M30
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Meridian books ; M30.
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| Note |
Previous editions published under title: Berlioz and the romantic century. |
| Contents |
Time, place, persons -- Music on the mountain -- Opera and the conservatoire -- Faustian man -- Revolution in July -- Reverie and passion -- Roman holiday -- Recollected in tranquility -- The gothic tradition -- The hero as artist -- The Dramatic Symphony -- Vox populi -- Music for Europe -- The conductor-composer -- Faust and philosophy -- Song in time of revolution -- Vision of a virtuoso -- Victorian London -- Religious history -- Virgilian music drama -- Esthetes at war -- Prospero's farewell -- Empire and industry -- Holy Russia and giddy France -- Memory's end. |
| Subject |
Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869.
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Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. |
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Musica. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Title |
Berlioz and the romantic century
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Barzun, Jacques, 1907- Berlioz and the romantic century. Berlioz and his century. [Rev. ed.]. New York, Meridian Books, 1956 (OCoLC)636534969 |
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