Berlioz on Music

Contents 1. MUSICAL POLEMIC: On "Dilettanti" 2. MUSICAL POLEMIC: On Armide and Gluck 3. THE ARTS. Observations on Classical Music and Romantic Music, Le Correspondant, October 22, 1830 4. Beethoven and the Egyptian Pyramids; Weber's Freischütz; Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony 5. Liszt, Chopin, and Ferdinand Hiller; launching of the Fantastic Symphony 6. MUSIC REVIEW: Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Théâtre-Italien; Beethoven quartets 7. MUSIC REVIEW: Beethoven by the Müller Quartet; Chopin; Mozart's Don Giovanni vs. Don Juan; Handel festival in London 8. MUSIC REVIEW: Women performers; violinist Hauman's communicative emotion; Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Shakespeare's Othello; Cherubini aria sung by Ponchard; rarity of great singers 9. Gluck (Part I). Gazette musicale de Paris, June 1, 1834. Biographical sketch; "critique admirative" of monologue from Il Telemaco 10. MUSIC REVIEW: Turkish music; Beethoven's "Eroica" booed in Bordeaux; musical conditions in the provinces; oasis of progress in Lyon 11. MUSIC REVIEW: Jealousy vs. solidarity among artists; trials of young composers; ironies on Conservatoire training; Henri Reber quartets; Liszt performs in his piano trio 12. Music Review: Choron, voice teacher and propagator of sacred music of the past; funeral service at the Invalides: Mozart Requiem, Jommelli, and Palestrina 13. Funeral service for Choron; Decline of religious music in France; destruction of old-regime choir schools; church ban on women singers 14. Rossini's William Tell (Part I) 15. BOIELDIEU: Funeral music for Boieldieu; survey of requiems; Cherubini 16. NOTICE TO READERS IDLE ENOUGH TO READ MY ARTICLES: Satirical announcement of Berlioz's upcoming concert, conducted by Girard; amusing summary of Harold in Italy 17. IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS (Part I): Early enthusiasm for Gluck; life-changing first experience of Gluck's masterpiece at the Opéra (1821). 18. Music review: à Elle, Letters for Piano by Chrétien Urhan 19. THEATRE-ITALIEN: Gabussi's Ernani 20. MUSIC REVIEW. OPéRA. William Tell. OPéRA-COMIQUE: Zémire et Azor (reprise). 21. CONCERT SOCIETY OF THE CONSERVATOIRE: First Concert [8th season] 22. LE MOINE, text by émilien Pacini, music by G. Meyerbeer 23. THIRD CONCERT AT THE CONSERVATOIRE: Symphonies by Haydn and Beethoven 24. Music REVIEW: Royal Academy of Music: Premiere of la Juive, opera in five acts by MM. 25. Music Review. Concert by the Pupils of Choron at the Hôtel de Ville 26. CONCERT SOCIETY OF THE CONSERVATOIRE: Fourth Concert, Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony 27. SIXTH CONSERVATOIRE CONCERT: Analysis of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony 28. CONCERT BY M. LISZT 29. REQUIEM at the Invalides 30. ON THE SCORE OF ZAMPA 31. MUSIC REVIEW: Bellini's I Puritani at the Théâtre-Italien, Cherubini's Treatise on Counterpoint-or a volume of poetry by Chaudesaigues 32. MOZART'S DON JUAN 33. Religious Music: M. Lesueur: Rachel, Noémie, Ruth et Booz, oratorios; M. Urhan: Auditions 34. OPÉRA-Comique. Concerts. Virtuosos and composers 35. First concert [of the season] at the Conservatoire: scene from Mozart's Idomeneo eclipses Beethoven's Seventh Symphony 36. LES HUGUENOTS: Acts 4 and 5 37. Concerts at the Conservatoire: The Magic Flute and The Mysteries of Isis 38. LISZT 39. ANTOINE REICHA 40. MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENTS: Le Siège de Corinthe at the Opéra; M. Ole Bull; M. Labarre and his harp school; Music of public festivals 41. PROGRESS OF MUSICAL EDUCATION IN FRANCE: M. Joseph Mainzer and M. Aubéry du Boulley 42. Polytechnical Society: Awards ceremony 43. OPéra: William Tell. Debut of Duprez 44. Royal Academy of Music: Premiere of La Chatte métamorphosée en femme, ballet