The Cambridge Berlioz Encyclopedia

[...]works like the Symphonie fantastique, Les Troyens and La Damnation de Faust – in all their many recordings – are impressive and complex, often with large orchestras and choirs, original instrumentation and fascinating cultural context. Les Troyens, for instance, that opera in five acts which ma...

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Published in:Reference reviews 2018-09, Vol.32 (7/8), p.37-38
Main Author: Hannabuss, Stuart
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Berlioz, Hector
Composers
Encyclopedias
Nonfiction
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Summary:[...]works like the Symphonie fantastique, Les Troyens and La Damnation de Faust – in all their many recordings – are impressive and complex, often with large orchestras and choirs, original instrumentation and fascinating cultural context. Les Troyens, for instance, that opera in five acts which many thought (and still think) is unstageable, is examined by Annegret Fauser (University of North Carolina) and provides structure and storyline, political and cultural context, the composer’s aims and the work’s reception, and how we think of it now). Berlioz was also a prolific writer – of letters, of musical criticism and reviews and much else: in a comprehensive entry on his biography, sub-sections pick out the family, his life, his time (most of his life) in Paris, trips to Italy, highs and lows, catalogues of his works, how he composed and self-borrowings, what he wrote and why, writers he liked to read and whose plots shaped his music, and his work as a librettist.
ISSN:0950-4125
1758-7697
DOI:10.1108/RR-06-2018-0103