Author
Bloom; Peter
Year
2022
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer
Language
English
Last Update
02-Oct-2024
Keywords
Music
Berlioz grew up in the provinces of southeastern France. He was not quite eighteen when he arrived in Paris to pursue medical, then musical study. If the formative years had a lasting impact on his life and work as composer, critic, advocate, and adversary, the artistic flame itself was lit in the capital city. Half a century later, the Symphonie fantastique would come to represent the culmination of what I have elsewhere called Berlioz’s “initiation”— the fons et origo of his instrumental repertory, the trigger of his international renown.¹ The scholars and the critics, the intrepid players and the indomitable...
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