Autobiography of Hector Berlioz Volume 1
Member of the Institute of France, from 1803 to 1869; Comprising his Travels in Italy, Germany, Russia, and England
- Author: Berlioz
- Translator: Holmes, Eleanor
- Translator: Holmes, Rachel
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Contents
- Preface;
- 1. La Cote St. Andre;
- 2. My father;
- 3. Meylan;
- 4. First music lessons from my father;
- 5. A year of medical studies;
- 6. I become one of Lesueur's pupils;
- 7. A first opera;
- 8. Augustin de Pons;
- 9. First interview with Cherubini;
- 10. My father withdraws my allowance;
- 11. I return to Paris;
- 12. I compete for a place as chorus singer, and get it;
- 13. First composition for the orchestra;
- 14. Competition at the Conservatoire;
- 15. Evenings at the Opera;
- 16. Weber at the Odeon;
- 17. Prejudice against operas with Italian words;
- 18. Shakespeare;
- 19. A futile concert;
- 20. Beethoven at the Conservatoire;
- 21. Fatality;
- 22. The competition for musical composition;
- 23. The Academy porter;
- 24. Miss Smithson again;
- 25. My third trial at the Conservatoire;
- 26. I read Goethe's Faust for the first time;
- 27. Fantasia on The Tempest;
- 28. A violent distraction;
- 29. Fourth competition at the Conservatoire;
- 30. Distribution of prizes at the Conservatoire;
- 31. My second concert;
- 32. Marseilles to Leghorn;
- 33. The scholars of the Academy;
- 34. Drama;
- 35. The theatres at Genoa and Florence;
- 36. Life at the Academy;
- 37. Sport in the mountains;
- 38. Subiaco;
- 39. Life of a musician in Rome;
- 40. The spleen;
- 41. Naples;
- 42. Influenza in Rome;
- 43. Florence;
- 44. The Censorship;
- 45. Benefit and concert at the Theatre Italien;
- 46. An order for a requiem;
- 47. Performance of my Lacrymosa at Lille;
- 48. Mdlle. Bertin's Esmeralda;
- 49. Concert of December 16, 1838;
- 50. Order from M. de Remusat to write the Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale;
- 51. Brussels.