作品情報

ベルリオーズの後半生を追う、決定版的伝記の第2巻。

デイヴィッド・ケアンズ『Berlioz: Volume 2』は、19世紀フランスの作曲家エクトル・ベルリオーズの晩年近くまでの活動を扱う伝記の続編。作品の成立過程や音楽的発展、当時の評論・上演事情、作曲家の私生活と公的評価の変遷を丹念に追う。

書籍情報

出版社

Univ of California Pr

発売日

2000-03-06

言語

英語

サイズ

17.15 x 6.99 x 24.77 cm

ISBN-13

9780520222007

ISBN-10

0520222008

価格

17185 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Biographies & Memoirs

This biography of composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) describes with unprecedented intimacy, affection, and respect the life of one of France's greatest artists. After long being regarded as an oddity and an eccentric figure, Berlioz is now being accepted into the ranks of the great composers. Based on a wealth of previously unpublished sources, and on a profound understanding of the humanity of his subject, David Cairns's book provides a full account of this extraordinary and powerfully attractive man. Volume II follows Berlioz's life from 1832 to his death in 1869, his most active years as a composer, conductor, and critic. This volume provides telling portraits of those close to Berlioz: his two wives, his son and his sisters, his friends and colleagues, fellow composers and critics. Cairns vividly evokes Berlioz's music and the music-making world of nineteenth-century Paris. Volume II also includes chapters on Wagner, Berlioz's career as a critic, the composer's concert tours in Germany, Russia, and England, and much more.

David Cairns was chief music critic of the Sunday Times from 1983 to 1992, having earlier been music critic and arts editor of the Spectator and a writer for the Financial Times and the New Statesman . From 1967 to 1972 he worked for the London branch of Phonogram. He has been Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California, Davis, and a visiting scholar at the Getty Center in Santa Monica.

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