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Hugh MacDonald

Biographies & Memoirs

Oxford University Press

Rambles Round Glasgow: Descriptive, Historical, and Traditional (Classic Reprint)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Forgotten Books

In this comprehensive life-and-works study, Macdonald draws on Berlioz's numerous writings - his Memoires, his critical articles, and his extensive correspondence, including many unpublished documents. Berlioz's provincial upbringing, his enthusiasm for Parisian opera and theatre, his marriage to the actress Harriet Smithson, his activities as composer, critic, and conductor, are covered in a biographical section which concludes with a chapter on his character. Discussion of the music is chronological, from the time when Berlioz arrived in Paris in 1821 to study medicine, through the peak of French Romanticism in the 1830's, to the compositions of his later years. In a final chapter Hugh Macdonald traces influences on Berlioz's style and examines his treatment of melody, harmony, and rhythm, and his distinctive orchestral technique.

Berlioz (The Master Musicians)

Arts & Literature

J.M. Dent & Sons

Berlioz Orchestral Music (BBC Music Guides)

Arts & Photography

Music

British Broadcasting Corporati

Mohammad Ali: Fifteen Rounds with the Greatest

Argyll Publishing

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