A Berlioz Bibliography

Selected Writings of Hector Berlioz Available in English

The Art of Music and Other Essays. Translated and edited by Elizabeth Csicsery-Rónay. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. Translation of A travers chants (1862).

"Berlioz on the Premiere of La favorite." Translated by E. Thomas Glasow. The Opera Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3 (spring 1998), pp. 33-43. Translation of review appearing in Journal des Débats, 6 December 1840.

Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise: A Translation and Commentary. Translated and edited by Hugh Macdonald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Translation of Grand traité d'instrumentation et d'orchestration modernes (1843-44; L'Art du chef d'orchestre added in 1855).

A Critical Study of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies with a Few Words on His Trios and Sonatas, a Criticism of "Fidelio," and an Introductory Essay on Music. Translated by Edwin Evans. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Translation of selections from A travers chants (1862).

Evenings with the Orchestra. Translated with introduction by Jacques Barzun, 1956. Reprint, with foreword by Peter Bloom, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Translation of Les soirées de l'orchestre (1852).

The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz. Translated and edited by David Cairns. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. Translation of Mémoires (1870).

Musical Madhouse: An English Translation of Berlioz's "Les grotesques de la musique." Edited by Alastair Bruce. Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2003.

Selected Letters of Berlioz. Translated by Roger Nichols and edited by Hugh Macdonald. London: Faber and Faber, 1995; New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

Selected Bibliography of English-Language Works about Berlioz

Abraham, Gerald. "The Influence of Berlioz on Richard Wagner." Music and Letters, vol. 5, no. 3 (July 1924), pp. 239-46.

Albright, Daniel. Berlioz's Semi-Operas: "Roméo et Juliette" and "La Damnation de Faust." Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2001. Reviewed in this issue by D. Kern Holoman.

Barzun, Jacques. Berlioz and the Romantic Century. Rev. ed. 2 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.

——. Berlioz and His Century: An Introduction to the Age of Romanticism. 1956. Reprint, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Bloom, Peter. "Berlioz in the Year of the Symphonie fantastique." Journal of Musicological Research, vol. 9, no. 2 (1989), pp. 67-88.

——. "Berlioz's Directorship of the Théâtre Italien." In Échos de France et d'Italie: Liber Amicorum Yves Gérard, edited by Marie-Claire Mussat, Jean Mongrédien, and Jean-Michel Nectoux, pp. 131-46. Paris: Buchet/Chastel Société française de musicologie, 1997.

——. "Episodes in the Livelihood of an Artist: Berlioz's Contacts and Contracts with Publishers." Journal of Musicological Research, vol. 15, no. 4 (1995), pp. 219-73.

——. The Life of Berlioz. Musical Lives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

——. "Orpheus' Lyre Resurrected: A Tableau musical by Berlioz."Musical Quarterly, vol. 61, no. 2 (1975), pp. 189-211.

——, ed. Berlioz Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Reviewed by Malcolm S. Cole, The Opera Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 1 (1994), pp. 117-22.

——, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Reviewed in this issue by Joe K. Law.

Bloom, Peter, and D. Kern Holoman. "Berlioz's Music for L'Europe littéraire." Music Review, vol. 39, no. 2 (1978), pp. 100-109.

Cairns, David. "Berlioz and Virgil." Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association, vol. 95 (1968-69), pp. 97-110.

——. "Berlioz in Verona." Music and Musicians, vol. 12, no. 8 (1963-64), pp. 15-17.

——. Berlioz. Vol. 1, The Making of an Artist, 1803-1832.Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

——. Berlioz. Vol. 2, Servitude and Greatness, 1832-1869.Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

——. "Spontini's Influence on Berlioz." In From Parnassus: Essays in Honor of Jacques Barzun, edited by Dora B. Weiner and William R. Keylor, pp. 25-41. New York: Harper and Row, 1976.

Clarson-Leach, Robert. Berlioz: His Life and Times. 1972. Rpt. Tunbridge Wells: Midas, 1983.

Cockrell, William D. "A Study in French Romanticism: Berlioz and Shakespeare." Journal of Musicological Research, vol...