A Life of Love and Music - Folio Society edition

A Life of Love and Music

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A Life of Love and Music - Folio Society edition
Folio Society
Art & Music

A Life of Love and Music

Hector Berlioz

Edition year 1987
Binding Cloth
Translator David Cairns
Weight 1.25 Kg
Pages 468
Dimensions 25.1 × 16.6 cm

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A Life of Love and Music by Hector Berlioz, translated and edited by David Cairns, twelves pages of plates illustrating contemporary photographs, etchings, paintings and drawings. Full red cloth with a caricature of Berlioz in gold, grey endleaves. Grey slipcase. 25.1 x 16.6 cm. 468 pp.

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Hector Berlioz's A Life of Love and Music follows the French composer's struggles to establish his voice in the musical world of the nineteenth century. Recollections of artistic discovery, performance and travel mingle with love, disappointment and battles against indifference. Berlioz writes as passionately about the difficulties of bringing music before an audience as about the imaginative excitement of composing it. Translated and edited by David Cairns, this selection from his memoirs gives a vivid personal account of Romantic musical life and the temperament behind works such as the Symphonie fantastique.

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