The Art of Music and Other Essays: (A Travers Chants)

Berlioz the person-composer-writer is the sensitive child of his century and a most passionate voice of his time. --The Opera Quarterly

Berlioz could hardly have been better served than by the translator of this English edition . . . It is an invaluable and long-overdue addition to the Berlioz literature in English. Elisabeth Csicsery-Rónay has given us an A travers chants for the millennium. --Music and Letters

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was equally prominent as composer and music critic. A Travers Chants is the collection of writings he himself selected from his thirty-odd years of musical journalism. This new translation, phrased in lively, idiomatic English and annotated for the twentieth-century reader, is illustrated with lithographs and drawings from Berlioz's lifetime.

Author: Hector Berlioz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 06/22/1994
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.42w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780253311641

About the Author

ELIZABETH CSICSERY-RÓNAY, based in Brussels, is a translator of both French and Hungarian. Her articles and music reviews have been published in Berlioz Society Bulletin, Opera News, and Musical America.