Berlioz
The Making of an Artist 1803-1832
$45.00
- Paperback
672 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2019
Summary
The landmark biography of the great Romantic composer, reissued for the 150th anniversary of his death.
No artist’s achievement connects more directly with early experience than that of Berlioz. David Cairns draws on a wealth of family papers to recreate in authentic and intimate detail the provincial milieu of Berlioz’s boyhood, showing how the son of a village doctor was already transforming himself into the composer of the Fantastic Symphony. Berlioz’s desperate attempts to win his…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141990651 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141990651 |
| Author: | David Cairns |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2019 |
| Weight: | 498g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 30mm |
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About The Author
David Cairns
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 on the Evening Standard, Financial Times and New Statesman. He has been Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of California at Davis, a visiting scholar at the Getty Center and a visiting fellow of Merton College, Oxford. In 2013, in recognition of his services to French music, he was made Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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