Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

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Sujet : Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869) Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : BnGren00 Mémoires (genre littéraire) -- français Langue : français Éditeur : Lemercier et Cie (Paris)

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Sujet : Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869) -- Caricatures et dessins humoristiques Caricatures et dessins humoristiques -- 19e siècle Langue : français

Handbill for a concert conducted by the French composer Hector Berlioz at the Cirque Olympique des Champs-Élysées on 6 April 1845

Noetinger, Monsieur. Destinataire de lettres

Sujet : Fornier, Estelle (1797-1876) Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869). Mémoires Lettre autographe signée. - Il s'agit du post-scriptum de la lettre envoyée le 29 avril 1865 (cachet postal selon les informations données dans l'édition, lettre n° 3002). - Hector Berlioz envoie à Estelle Fornier le volume de ses "Mémoires", dès sa parution, en juillet 1865, voir la lettre suivante de cette collection : N.L.a. 274, 79. - Collection Richard Macnutt Correspondance Fornier, Estelle (1797-1876). Destinataire de lettres Langue : français

Identifier: modernmusicmusic02elso (find matches) Title: Modern music and musicians : (Encyclopedic) Year: 1918 (1910s) Authors: Elson, Louis Charles, 1848-1920 Subjects: Piano Musicians Composers Publisher: New York : The University Society Inc. Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: d that I have no great faith in the atheism of Berlioz ; neither doI believe much in his Platonism. Nevertheless, he has devoted sometwenty pages in his Memoirs to the story of his passion for Mme. F , with letters to prove it, and some details which have always seemed to me rather puerile. Like Dante, he was ambitious of having a Beatrice—a very beautiful Beatrice apparently, but rather rustic, whom he knewvery little, having seen her only three or four times at most, and those atlong intervals. She was older than he, and was some seventy years ofage when, having gone to visit her at Lyons, he came near fainting at herfeet. It was at Meylan, a little village of the Dauphine which overlooked 178 HECTOR BERLIOZ the valley of the Isere, that she appeared to him one fine day wearinglittle pink shoes. She was then eighteen; he was twelve. That visionwas never erased from his memory. No ; time can have no effect,— newloves never erase the first one. Her name was Estelle, but to him she Text Appearing After Image: HOUSE WHERE BERLIOZ DIED. No. 4 rue de Calais. Paris. His rooms were on the upper floor. There is a plaqueou the facade recording the fact. was always the nymph, the hamadryad of St. Eynard, the stella montis.That name was the one he wrote in the last line of his Memoirs; it wasperhaps that name, too, that lie murmured when he heaved his last sigh. Note.—M. Reyers statement that Wagner wouldprepare the way for Berlioz in France, could Wagnerbe brought to hearing there, has received amplejustification during the season of 1899-1900. Not onlyiu France but in Italy Berliozs La Prise de Troie has been received with enthusiasm. To the lover ofBerlioz, to whom Harold, Romeo and LEn-fance du Christ are dear, it is easy to believe that like Bach, whom he did not know, but whom he re-sembled in more points than one, his completeapotheosis will wait till music catches up with hisgigantic stride. It is certain that Wagner is the oneand sure preparation for the enjoyment of Berlioz,whose poetry Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.