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448 pages ; 18 cm Previous editions published under title: Berlioz and the romantic century Preface to the revised edition -- 1. Time, place, persons -- 2. Music on the mountain -- 3. Opera and conservatoire -- 4. Faustian man -- 5. Revolution in July -- 6. Reverie and passion -- 7. Roman holiday -- 8. Recollected in tranquillity -- 9. The Gothic tradition -- 10. The hero as artist -- 11. The dramatic symphony -- 12. Vox Populi -- 13. Music for Europe -- 14. The conductor-composer -- 15. Faust and philosophy -- 16. Song in time of revolution -- 17. Vision of a virtuoso -- 18. Victorian London -- 19. Religious history -- 20. Virgilian music drama -- 21. Esthetes at war -- 22. Prospero's farewell -- 23. Empire and industry -- 24. Holy Russia and Giddy France -- 25. Memory's end -- Notes -- Index committed to retain 20170930 committed to retain 20170930

Author

Jacques Barzun

Publisher

New York: Meridian Books

Published

1956

Language

EN

Subjects

Memoir, Music, Biography