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Discovering Berlioz: Essays, Reviews, Talks

Discovering Berlioz: Essays, Reviews, Talks

Cairns, David

Hardcover

Series: Musicians on Music, Book 12

Classical MusicGeneral MusicMusic Reference

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ISBN10: 0907689582
ISBN13: 9780907689584
Publisher: Toccata Pr
Published: Nov 22 2019
Pages: 400
Weight: 2.30
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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.

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