Description: 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.
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Subject Area: Music
Book Title: Berlioz and His World
Publication Name: Berlioz and His World
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject: History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Classical, Individual Composer & Musician
Publication Year: 2024
Series: The Bard Music Festival Ser.
Type: Textbook
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 0.7 in
Author: Sarah Hibberd
Item Weight: 18.8 Oz
Item Width: 6.1 in
Number of Pages: 343 Pages
