Berlioz
Berlioz
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Describes the composer Berlioz's early life and career until the celebrated performance of Symphonie Fantastique in 1832. This title depicts a character of titanic energy and ambition in the process of becoming one of the most distinctive personalities and artists of the romantic era.
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Berlioz by David Cairns
This, the first prize-winning volume of David Cairns's life of Berlioz, describes with unprecedented intimacy the composer's early life and career until the celebrated performance of Symphonie Fantastique in 1832. Cairns depicts a character of titanic energy and ambition in the process of becoming one of the most distinctive personalities and artists of the romantic era. In his struggles to escape his family's influence and plans, his move to Paris, and the exhausting setbacks of his early career, Berlioz emerges a figure at once recognisably modern and yet possessed by an unapproachable intensity of experience.
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, the Financial Times and the New Statesman. From 1967 to 1972 he worked for the London branch of Phonogram.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780140287264 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140287264 |
| Title | Berlioz |
| Author | David Cairns |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2000-11-02 |
| Number of pages | 672 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |