Table of Contents

Preface
List of Abbreviations
I: A BIOGRAPHY OF BERLIOZ'S MUSIC
1: Provincial to Prize-Winner
2: The Romantic Decade
3: Damnation and After
II: TECHNIQUES AND MEANINGS
4: Implications of a Musical Biography
5: Techniques of Composition
6: Signs and Evocations
III: THE WORKS
7: The Lyric Berlioz
8: Architecture, Patriotism, and the End of the World
9: A Fantastic Symphonist
10: Berlioz Dramatist
Bibliography
Index of Berlioz's Works
General Index

Reviews

Rushton shows his true vocation as pedagogue, for the musical detail contained within these sections forms a fine analytical study for Berlioz's major works which every university library should have on its shelves. Clair Rowden, Nineteenth-Century Music Review ... carefully researched, often provocative ... interesting new views. Music and Letters Julian Rushton is well known and highly regarded as a leading Berlioz scholar ... whose detailed knowledge of Berlioz's oeuvre is astonishing. Music and Letters ... carefully written. Musical Times Rushton's generous humanity and emotional maturity constantly shine through the constant stream of marvellous insights. Musical Times A most distinguished and penetrating study. Musical Times Fascinating ... Rushton has superbly perceptive pages on works he particularly admires. BBC Music Magazine