Description
Book SynopsisHector Berlioz (1803-1869) was equally prominent as composer and music critic. "A Travers Chants" is the collection of writings he himself selected from his years of musical journalism. This translation, presented in idiomatic English and annotated for twentieth-century readers, is illustrated with lithographs and drawings from Berlioz's lifetime.
Table of ContentsFORWARD BY Jacques Barzun
Translator's Note
Acknowledgments
The Art of Music
A Critical Study of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies
A Few Words about the Trios and Sonatas of Beethoven
Fidelio
Beethoven in the Rings of Saturn
The Emoluments of Singers
The Current State of the Art of Singing
Good Singers and Bad
Gluck's Orphee
Lines Written Soon After the First Performance of Orphee at the Theatre-Lyrique
The Alceste of Euripides and Those of Quinault and Calzabigi
The Revival of Gluck's Alceste at the Opera
Instruments Added by Modern Composers to the Scores of Old Masters
High and Low Sounds
Der Freischutz
Oberon Abu-Hassan; The Abduction from the Seraglio
The Method Discovered by M. Delsarte for Tuning Instruments
On Church Music
Musical Customs of China
Letter to the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institue
The Rise in Concert Pitch
The End Is Near
The Richard Wagner Concerts
Sunt Lacrymae Rerum
The Symphonies of H. Reber; Stephen Heller
Romeo and Juliet
Concerning a Ballet Based on Faust
To Be or Not to Be
Appendix: The Lapdog School
Notes
Index
