Berlioz by David Cairns
This second volume completes David Cairns's extraordinary life of Berlioz (described by the Financial Times as 'one of the great biographies of our day and one of the great feats of literary sympathy with an artistic genius'). Drawing on a wide range of unpublished and published sources, Cairns recreates the vivid everyday reality of Berlioz's life. He tells in detail of the composer's struggles to establish himself in Paris, and shows how his work was created and performed against the grain ofParisian musical life, where Berlioz earned his living by music criticism and was commonly thought of as a journalist. For the first time biographical justice is done to this fascinating, complex, titanic human being.
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780140287271 |
| ISBN 10 | 0140287272 |
| Title | Berlioz |
| Author | David Cairns |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2000-11-02 |
| Number of pages | 944 |
| Prizes | Winner of Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2000, Winner of Whitbread Prize (Biography) 1999, Winner of Whitbread Book Awards: Biography Category 1999 |
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