The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz

Name: The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz
Price: 102.55 AED
Availability: InStock

Current Price

102.55AED

Similar Products

The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz: Introduced by David Cairns	179.50 AED	Buy Now
The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston	158.25 AED	Buy Now
The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant	251.90 AED	Buy Now
The Iris Trilogy: Memoirs of Iris Murdoch	217.50 AED	Buy Now
The World Of Yesterday Memoirs Of A European Paperback	188.00 AED	Buy Now
The Autobiography or Narrative of a Soldier: The Peninsular War Memoirs of William Brown of the	119.70 AED	Buy Now
Ganbatte The Japanese Art Of Always Moving Forward by Suzuki, Nobuo - Garcia, Hector - Liebermann, Albert - Garcia, Hector Hardcover	58.00 AED	Buy Now
Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers	208.35 AED	Buy Now

ISBN 13: 9781857152319
ISBN 10: 185715231X
Publisher: Everyman
Book Description: Possibly the most colourful figure in the history of Western music, Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) was certainly the most eloquent. His autobiography is among the greatest ever written. Larger than life – like his massive works – Berlioz was a seminal figure in the Romantic movement and his book is both a personal testament and an account of his role in that movement. It tells the story of his romance with Harriet Smithson –with whom he fell in love when he saw her playing the part of Ophelia – and his even more passionate affairs with Shakespeare, Scott and Byron. Familiar with all the great figures of the age – Liszt, Wagner, Balzac, Delacroix, Weber, Rossini – Berlioz paints brilliant and often mordant portraits of them in a style which is one of the glories of French prose. Above all, this is the intimate and detailed self-revelation of a complex and attractive man, driven by his creative urges to a position of lonely eminence. The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz were translated some years ago by David Cairns now famous himself as the composer’s finest biographer. For the Everyman edition he has completely revised the text, and the extensive notes which accompany it, to take account of the latest research.
Language: English
Author: Berlioz
Publication Date: 2002-04-26
Number of Pages: 744 pages