Berlioz

These twelve essays bring new breadth and depth to our knowledge of the life and work of the composer of the <I>Symphonie fantastique.</I> A distinguished international array of scholars here treat such matters as Berlioz's aesthetics and what it means to write about the meaning of his music; the political implications of his fiction and the affinities of his projects as composer and as critic; what the Germans thought of his work before his travels in Germany and what the English made of him when he visited their capital city; what he seems to have written immediately after encountering Shakespeare's <I>Romeo and Juliet</I> (a surprise) and where he profited from Beethoven in what later became <I>Roméo et Juliette.</I> The volume closes with two reflective essays on Berlioz's literary masterpiece the <I>Mémoires.</I><BR><BR>Contributors: Lord Aberdare (Alastair Bruce) Jean-Pierre Bartoli Jacques Barzun Peter Bloom David Cairns Gunther Braam Gérard Condé Pepijn van Doesburg Joël-Marie Fauquet Frank Heidlberger Hugh Macdonald and Julian Rushton.<BR><BR>Peter Bloom (Smith College) is author of <I>The Life of Berlioz</I> (1998) and editor of <I>The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz</I> (2000).