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portada Discovering Berlioz: Essays, Reviews, Talks: 12 (Musicians on Music, 12)
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
400
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.6 x 16.0 x 3.3 cm
Weight
1.04 kg.
ISBN13
9780907689584
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Discovering Berlioz: Essays, Reviews, Talks: 12 (Musicians on Music, 12)

David Cairns (Author) · Toccata Press · Hardcover

Discovering Berlioz: Essays, Reviews, Talks: 12 (Musicians on Music, 12) - Cairns, David

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Synopsis "Discovering Berlioz: Essays, Reviews, Talks: 12 (Musicians on Music, 12) "

The writings of David Cairns have played a major part in the relatively recent acceptance of Berlioz as a central figure in western classical music. Discovering Berlioz collects articles, lectures and other texts from several decades of advocacy, throwing new light on this outsize personality - the Romantic composer par excellence. For the past half-century and more David Cairns has been one of the world's pre-eminent Berlioz scholars, translating Berlioz's freewheeling memoirs and writing a monumental biography of the composer that earned a procession of awards. But many of Cairns' writings on Berlioz were intended for particular audiences - the Berlioz Society Bulletin, articles in books and journals, contributions to newspapers (he was a critic for The Sunday Times for 25 years) and lectures - and have never been collected between a single set of covers. Discovering Berlioz presents nearly 40 essays from the past five decades that even now throw unexpected light on this most quixotic and profound of composers - firebrand and philosopher almost in the same breath. These articles follow the chronology of Berlioz's life, examining the influences of his provincial childhood on his music, the revelations of Virgil, Gluck, Shakespeare and Beethoven, the tribulations of his professional life in Paris, when the pressure to earn a living as a reviewer and writer robbed him of the time he should have spent on composition, and finally focusing on the masterpiece that crowned Berlioz's difficult life, the operatic epic Les Troyens. Discovering Berlioz also charts the history of Berlioz reception: the composer who in the mid-twentieth century was regarded as aneccentric outsider is now seen as one of the most vital figures in the history of western music - a re-assessment for which David Cairns himself deserves much of the credit.

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