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    The Mémoires de Hector Berlioz are an autobiography by French composer Hector Berlioz. First serialised in several contemporary journals including Journal...
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    a local school when he was about ten, Berlioz was educated at home by his father. He recalled in his Mémoires that he enjoyed geography, especially books...
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    Invalides, conducted by François Habeneck on 5 December 1837. In his Mémoires, Berlioz claimed that at the premiere of the work, conductor François Habeneck...
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  • work by Walter Scott Mémoires (Berlioz) (aka Mémoires de Hector Berlioz), an autobiography by French composer Hector Berlioz Mémoires, a 1959 artists' book...
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    The French romantic composer Hector Berlioz produced significant musical and literary works. Berlioz composed mainly in the genres of opera, symphonies...
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  • Many parts of the Mémoires (1870) were originally published in the Journal des débats, as well as Le monde illustré. The Mémoires paint a magisterial...
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    Benvenuto Cellini (opera) (category Operas by Hector Berlioz)
    overture Le carnaval romain which Berlioz composed from material in the opera. Berlioz wrote this in his Mémoires about the background to the opera:...
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    Harold en Italie (category Symphonies by Hector Berlioz)
    ha! – haro! haro! Harold!" it began, a cheeky touch Berlioz recalled years later in his Mémoires. In the second movement, Marche des pèlerins, Harold...
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    Peter Bloom (category Berlioz scholars)
    Hector Berlioz. He is an editor of Berlioz's complete correspondence and complete music criticism; his new edition of Les Mémoires d'Hector Berlioz appeared...
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  • Saint-Bernard en Bourgogne : lieux et mémoires, les Éditions du Bien public, Dijon, 1990 ISBN 2-905441-26-7 ; Jacques Berlioz, Marie-Anne Polo de Beaulieu (dir...
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    Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale (category Symphonies by Hector Berlioz)
    Hugh Macdonald, Berlioz ("The Master Musicians", J. M. Dent, 1982) Hector Berlioz, Memoirs (Dover, 1960) (translation of Mémoires) Grande symphonie...
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  • David Cairns (writer) (category Berlioz scholars)
    ground-breaking cycle of Berlioz recordings for the label (with sleeve notes by Cairns). His translation of Berlioz's autobiography (Mémoires) was first published...
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    best represented in her famous portrayal as Dido, the tragic heroine of Berlioz's magnum opus, Les Troyens. As a concert performer, Baker was noted for...
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    with roles including Beethoven's Leonore, Wagner's Sieglinde and Kundry, Berlioz's Cassandre and Didon, and Bartók's Judith. The New York Times music critic...
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    for over forty years. A young Hector Berlioz recorded the deep impression this work made on him in his Mémoires. Upon returning to Vienna following his...
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    Schumann and Carl Loewe. Among his greatest admirers was Hector Berlioz, whose operas and Mémoires reveal Byron's influence. In the twentieth century, Arnold...
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    Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. Hector Berlioz, 'Mémoires de Hector Berlioz comprenant ses voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie...
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    Romantic Literature (1982), vol.1, p.490 Lieder Net Lieder Net Mémoires de Hector Berlioz, Paris 1896, p.302 Tovey, Donald (1981). Symphonies and Other...
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    absinthesiser! James Young on music and heroin (including Nico, Bill Evans, Berlioz) featured in BBC Radio 4 Heroin (Prof. Andrew Hussey) BBC Radio 4 - Heroin...
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    and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised." Hector Berlioz' L'enfance du Christ ("The Childhood of Christ"), in part Three, has Sais...
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    Two famous musicians of the 19th century were friends of Hugo: Hector Berlioz and Franz Liszt. The latter played Beethoven in Hugo's home, and Hugo joked...
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  • genres by ten different composers: Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Berlioz, Verdi, Brahms, Sibelius, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky; it provides descriptive...
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    Press. ISBN 978-1-78327-083-5. Potter, Caroline (2017). French Music Since Berlioz. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-09389-5.· Rey, Anne (1974). Erik Satie...
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    Prosperous Voyage and fifth "Reformation" symphony (1830), and Hector Berlioz included serpent and ophicleide in his early revisions of Symphonie fantastique...
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    for other cities. Among her early admirers were Robert Schumann, Hector Berlioz and, most importantly for her, Felix Mendelssohn. Ignaz Moscheles wrote:...
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    of Meyerbeer and Berlioz as "neoromantic": "The Opera, to which we shall now return, has swallowed down the Neoromanticism of Berlioz, too, as a plump...
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    first significant applications of the term to music was in 1789, in the Mémoires by the Frenchman André Grétry, but it was E. T. A. Hoffmann who established...
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  • is as follows: Dies Irae segment from "Symphonie fantastique" by Hector Berlioz, performed by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind "Lontano" by György Ligeti...
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    de l'orchestre moderne faisant suite au Traité d'instrumentation de H. Berlioz (1904, Paris: Lemoine) L'Orgue moderne, la décadence dans la facture contemporaine...
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    Âge, Nathan, Paris, 1993 ISBN 2-09-191356-1 ; p. 256 Directed by Jacques Berlioz, Moines et religieux au Moyen Âge, Éditions du Seuil (collection Points...
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