(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) About the Author: David Cairns, author of the highly acclaimed biography Berlioz, has been music critic of the Spectator, The Evening Standard, The New Statesman, and The Sunday Times (London). He has (17) books in the library, Total download and read (59).

The extensive notes that accompany the text have been updated to reflect the results of recent research Access. Translator and editor David Cairns has completely revised the text of this memoir of Hector Berlioz. Publication date 2002 Topics Composers - France - Biography. And through Berlioz's intimate and detailed self-revelation, there emerges a profoundly sympathetic and attractive man, driven, finally, by his overwhelming creative urges to a position of lonely eminence.įor this new Everyman's edition of The Memoirs, the translator-the composer's most admired biographer-has completely revised the text and the extensive notes to take into account the latest research. The memoirs of Hector Berlioz by Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Familiar with all the great figures of the age, Berlioz paints brilliant portraits of Liszt, Wagner, Balzac, Weber, and Rossini, among others. He tells the story of his liaison with Harriet Smithson, and his even more passionate affairs of the mind with Shakespeare, Scott, and Byron. translated from the French and edited by David Cairns Knopf, 636 pp., 12.50 HECTOR BERLIOZ’S Mmoires are a classic of musical autobiography. Hector Berlioz' (1803-69) autobiography is both an account of his important place in the rise of the Romantic movement and a personal testament. Autobiography and Primary Sources The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz.

The Memoirs by Hector Berlioz