Table of Contents

Berlioz's Berlioz - Peter Gay
Catherine Massip, "Berlioz and Early Music"
David Charlton, "Learning the Past"
Sylvia L'Ecuyer, "Joseph d'Origue's 'Autopsy' of Benvenuto Cellini"Cellini"
Katherine Kolb, "Plots and Politics: Berlioz's Tales of Sound and Fury"and Fury"
Kerry Murphy, "Berlioz, Meyerbeer, and the Place of Jewishness in Criticism"Criticism"
Cecile Reynaud, "Berlioz, Liszt, Virtuosity"
Heather Hadlock, "Berlioz, Ophelia, and Feminist Hermeneutics"
Jean-Michel Nectoux, "Berlioz in 1900: Between Fervor and Fear"
Lesley Wright, "Berlioz in the Fin-de-siècle Press"
"Berlioz Forgeries" Richard Macnutt
Fourteen Points about Berlioz and the Public,or Why There Is Still a Berlioz Problem - Jacques Barzun

About the Author

PETER BLOOM is the Grace Jarcho Ross Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Smith College.

Reviews

All in all, a wonderful book to mark the birthday anniversary of a composer whose life and works deserve to be celebrated most noisily!
*OPERA QUARTERLY*

A compendium of first-rate musicological research and reportage that easily lives up to its ambitious title.
*CHOICE*

New and uncommon perspectives on Berlioz research . . . [including on] Berlioz's political consciousness and contemporary awareness of his political attitudes. . . . [Barzun] reveal[s] misunderstandings and clichéd opinions that still exist today about Berlioz.
*MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTES*

Excellent volume.
*GRAMOPHONE*

Brilliant discussion...extremely pertinent yet diverse analyses....This work, in its very diversity, has the clear advantage of the universality of Berlioz's genius.
*AD PARNASSUM*

Well-written and impeccably edited. . . . An outstanding Afterword by Jacques Barzun.
*FRENCH REVIEW*