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In Reply to: RE: Berlioz on Beethoven posted by rbolaw on October 28, 2011 at 06:28:05
Probably the most entertaining set of composer memoirs ever penned! It's full of stay-in-the-mind images, such as the episode during Berlioz' medical studies (where he was among the students out with the cadavers and having to fight off the sparrows who came by for "a piece of the action")!
Are you reading the Cairns translation or the one by Barzun?
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David Cairns. Do I need a different translation?
That's the one I read - I was just wondering.
I think I have the "older" Barzun translation. But I doubt that really matters since Berlioz wrote directly from his heart -- he is hard to misunderstand. Along with the memoires, you may wish to look at "Evenings at the Orchestra" for concert criticism at its best.
Berlioz was, to me, a truly great composer, a fine writer, the apotheosis of romanticism, and perhaps the most significant expander of orchestral-colour possibilities ever.
So there.
Jeremy
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