Berlioz and the Romantic Century
Author: Jacques Barzun
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 628
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Berlioz and His Century
Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1982-08-15
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780226038612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this abridgment of his monumental study, Berlioz and the Romantic Century, Jacques Barzun recounts the events and extraordinary achievements of the great composer's life against the background of the romantic era. As the author eloquently demonstrates, Berloiz was an archetype whose destiny was the story of an age, the incarnation of an artistic style and a historical spirit. "In order to understand the nineteenth century, it is essential to understand Berlioz," notes W. H. Auden, "and in order to understand Berlioz, it is essential to read Professor Barzun."
Berlioz and the Romantic Century
Author: Jacques Barzun
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 616
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJacques Barzun
Author: Michael Murray
Publisher: Frederic C. Beil Publisher
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781929490417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the story of the career and ideas of one of the twentieth-century's leading intellectuals. Jacques Barzun was the author of some thirty books of biography, history, and cultural criticism, among them the best-sellers "The House of Intellect," an indictment of governmental and foundation interference with the autonomy of scholars and universities, and "From Dawn to Decadence," an argument that the West was falling into decay and incapacity.
Berlioz and the Romantic Century
Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher:
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 624
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author recounts the events and extraordinary achievements of the great composer's life against the background of the romantic era. As the author eloquently demonstrates, Berloiz was an archetype whose destiny was the story of an age, the incarnation of an artistic style and a historical spirit. "In order to understand the nineteenth century, it is essential to understand Berlioz," notes W. H. Auden, "and in order to understand Berlioz, it is essential to read Professor Barzun."
Classic, Romantic, and Modern
Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780226038520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing from the works of influential figures in art and literature, the author traces the development of romanticism from classicism and the emergence of the modern ego.
The Culture We Deserve
Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 1989-05
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780819562371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essence of culture is interpenetration. From any part of it the searching eye will discover connections with another part seemingly remote. If from my descriptions the reader finds this wide-angled view sharpened or expanded, my purpose in publishing these pages will have been served.
The Use and Abuse of Art
Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-07-21
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 0691216339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the celebrated cultural historian and bestselling author, a provocative history of the evolution of our ideas about art since the early nineteenth century In this witty, provocative, and learned book, acclaimed cultural historian and writer Jacques Barzun traces our changing attitudes to the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that we are living in a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance. He challenges our conceptions and misconceptions about art “in order to reach a conclusion about its value and its drawbacks for life at the present time.”
Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz
Author: Francesca Brittan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-14
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1107136326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of fantastic soundworlds in nineteenth-century France, providing a fresh aesthetic and compositional context for Berlioz and others.
The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz
Author: Peter Bloom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-08-24
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1107494060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStill chiefly known as the extravagant composer of the Symphonie fantastique, Berlioz was an artist caught in the crossfire between the academic classicism of the French musical establishment and the romantic modernism of the Parisian musical scene. He was a thinker in an age that invented both the religion of art and the notion of the 'genius' who preached and practised it. This Companion contains essays by eminent scholars on Berlioz's place in nineteenth-century French cultural life, on his principal compositions (symphonies, overtures, operas, sacred works, songs), on his major writings (a delightful volume of memoires, a number of short stories, large quantities of music criticism, an orchestration treatise), on his direct and indirect encounters with other famous musicians (Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner), and on his legacy in France. The volume is framed by a detailed chronology of his life and a usefully annotated bibliography.
