Author: Berlioz, Hector
Title: The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz: The Complete Work Newly Translated, Edited and Introduced by David Cairns including His Travels in Italy, Germany, Russia and England 1803-1865
Description: Gollancz, London, 1969. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Fair. Berlioz began to compile his memoirs in 1848 at the age of 44. The first draft was finished six years later and the whole work completed in 1865, four years before his death. This new, complete - and superb - translation by one of our most distinguished younger music critics, was published in the year of Berlioz's centenary. David Cairns's Introduction helps to explain the reasons for today's revival of Berlioz's music, and the enormous interest in this composer's memoirs. He shows how Berlioz was never understood by the authorities who controlled public performance in the Paris of his day, how he was frustrated at every turn. No other composer of Berlioz's stature (with the possible exception of Wagner) has left an important literary work that is at once a record of his innermost thoughts about his music, an account of the pressures, tribulations, family worries and love-affairs that affected his whole life, and a unique travel diary-for his need to find an audience for his music took him to all the principal capitals and countries of Europe. Size: Large Octavo. 636 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Previous owner's signature in ink to fep. Gilt titles spine. blue cloth; illustrated by b/w. drawings, photo's. & maps. Includes appendices, glossary & index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Composers; Music Memoirs; France; 19th century; Music. Inventory No: 4118.

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