The Art of Music and Other Essays - 9780253311641

The Art of Music and Other Essays(a Travers Chants)\nAuthor(s): Hector Berlioz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253311641, 978-0253311641\nSynopsis\n\""Berlioz the person-composer-writer is the sensitive child of his century and a most passionate voice of his time.\"" The Opera Quarterly\n \""Berlioz could hardly have been better served than by the translator of this English edition . . . It is an invaluable and long-overdue addition to the Berlioz literature in English. Elisabeth Csicsery-Rnay has given us an A travers chants for the millennium.\"" Music and Letters\n Hector Berlioz [tel] was equally prominent as composer and music critic. A Travers Chants is the collection of writings he himself selected from his thirty-odd years of musical journalism. This new translation, phrased in lively, idiomatic English and annotated for the twentieth-century reader, is illustrated with lithographs and drawings.