Peter Bloom (ed.) - The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz

The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz

Still widely known as the extravagant composer of the Symphonie fantastique , Berlioz was a subtle and complex artist caught in the crossfire between the academic classicism of the French musical establishment and the romantic modernism of the Parisian musical scene. He was a thinker in an age that invented both the religion of art and the notion of the genius who preached and practiced it. This Companion contains essays by eminent scholars on Berliozs place in nineteenth-century French cultural life, on his principal compositions (symphonies, overtures, operas, sacred works, songs), on his major writings (a delightful volume of memoirs, a number of short stories, large quantities of music criticism, an orchestration treatise), on his direct and indirect encounters with other famous musicians (Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner), and on his legacy in France. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of his life and a usefully annotated bibliography.

PETER BLOOM is Professor of Music at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. He is author of The Life of Berlioz (1998) and editor of Berlioz Studies (1992). He is also a member of the panel of advisers for the New Berlioz Edition and has edited volume 7 of the series, Llio ou Le Retour la vie (1992).

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The Cambridge Companion to

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Peter Bloom

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Jacques Barzun, University Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, was literary adviser to Charles Scribners Sons, in New York City, from 1975 to 1993. He retired to San Antonio, Texas, in 1997. His latest book, published by HarperCollins, is From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Culture.

Diana Bickley , now completing a doctoral dissertation on The Concert Overtures of Hector Berlioz at Goldsmiths College, University of London, is editor of volume 20 of the New Berlioz Edition.

Peter Bloom, the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities at Smith College, is editor of Music in Paris in the Eighteen-Thirties (1987) and Berlioz Studies (1992). His short biography, The Life of Berlioz , appeared in 1998.

David Cairns, independent scholar, has been music critic for the Spectator , the Evening Standard , the Financial Times , the New Statesman , and most recently the Sunday Times. The first volume of his biography of Berlioz, The Making of an Artist , appeared in 1989; the second, Servitude and Greatness , in 1999. Both volumes are now published by the University of California Press.

Pierre Citron , Professor Emeritus of French Literature at the Sorbonne nouvelle, Paris, author of authoritative studies of the works of Balzac and Giono, is General Editor of the Correspondance gnrale dHector Berlioz .

Katharine Ellis is Lecturer in the Music Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, and joint editor of Music & Letters . Her Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France: La Revue et Gazette musicale de Paris, 18341880 appeared in 1995. She is currently at work on a book on the revival of early music in nineteenth-century France.

Jol-Marie Fauquet is Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, in Paris. He is the author of, among other books, La Musique de chambre Paris de la Restauration 1870 (1986) and Csar Franck (1999). He is editor of the Correspondance of douard Lalo (1989) and editor-in-chief of the Dictionnaire de la Musique en France au XIXe sicle (forthcoming from Fayard).

Annegret Fauser is Lecturer in Music at City University, London, and author of Der Orchestergesang in Frankreich zwischen 1870 und 1920 (1994). With Manuele Schwartz she is co-editor of Von Wagner zum Wagnrisme: Musik-Literatur-Kunst-Politik , and is currently at work on a book titled Les Voix de Marianne: Women and Music in fin de sicle Paris.

James Haar , author of numerous and crucial studies of the music of the renaissance, is William. R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His most recent book,