By
Pepijn van Doesburg
© 2005 Pepijn van Doesburg
IntroductionThis bibliography includes all editions of the complete text and all published substantial fragments that I know of in any language. Each edition is presented as follows:
TITLE AS PRINTED ON TITLE PAGE
Information on editor or translator as printed
City: publisher, year (publisher’s collection) [marked with a red asterisk (*): editions that I have seen myself].
Size; pages; illustrations etc.; binding; ISBN-number
Page collation (only in case of first editions of important publications)
Note: any remarks on the edition, including references to Hopkinson’s
bibliography (Hopkinson, Cecil, A Bibliography of the Musical and Literary Works of Hector Berlioz, 1803-1869 [Edinburgh, 1951; rev. R Macnutt, Tunbridge Wells, 1980])
Title and editor/translator are omitted in case of later editions of the same
publication.
Readers are invited to submit any additional information they have.
Translations:
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Romanian
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FRENCH TEXTA / TRAVERS CHANTS / ÉTUDES MUSICALES, ADORATIONS / BOUTADES ET CRITIQUES / PAR / HECTOR BERLIOZ / Love’s labour’s lost. (SHAKESPEARE) / Hostis habet muros... (VIRGILE.) / [monogram, white on black:] M L / PARIS / MICHEL LÉVY FRÈRES, LIBRAIRES ÉDITEURS / RUE VIVIENNE, 2 BIS, ET BOULEVARD DES ITALIENS, 15 / A LA LIBRAIRIE NOUVELLE / 1862 / Tous droits réservés.
*Paris: Michel Lévy, 1862. 17,5 x 11 cm; 336 pp.;
sewed.
[i-ii] blank, [iii] half title page, [iv] advertisement for Les Soirées de
l’Orchestre and Les Grotesques de la Musique, and: PARIS. – IMP. SIMON RAÇON ET COMP., RUE D ERFURTH, 1., [v] title page, [vi] blank, [vii] dedication: A / M. ERNEST LEGOUVÉ / DE L’ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE, [viii] blank; [1]-[334] text, [335]-336 TABLE
Note: pagination differs from Holoman’s catalogue. This is according to the copies I know. Variant: some copies include a publisher’s catalogue at the end of the book, dated July 1862 (36 pp.). 1500 copies. Hopkinson 86
A TRAVERS CHANTS. ETUDES MUSICALES, ADORATIONS, BOUTADES ET CRITIQUES
Deuxième Edition
Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1872 (Bibliothèque contemporaine). 18,5 x 12
cm; 352 pp.; sewed
[1] dedication, [3]-[349] text, [351]-352 Table
Note: text newly typeset. Dated 1871 on cover. 1000 copies. Hopkinson 86A
[Troisième édition?]
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1880. (Bibliothèque contemporaine). 18,5 x 12 cm; 352
pp.; sewed
Note: reprint of the preceding. 1000 copies. Hopkinson 86B
Quatrième édition
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1886 (Bibliothèque contemporaine). 18,5 x 12 cm; 352
pp.; sewed
Note: reprint of the preceding. 1000 copies. Hopkinson 86C
*Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1898 (Bibliothèque
contemporaine). 18,5 x 12 cm; 352 pp.; sewed
Note: reprint of the preceding. 1000 copies. Hopkinson 86D
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1903. 18,5 x 12 cm; 352 pp.; sewed
Note: reprint of the preceding. 500 copies.
*Paris: Calmann-Lévy, [1906]. 18,5 x 12 cm; 352 pp.; sewed
Note: reprint of the preceding. 1000 copies
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1924. 18,5 x 12 cm; 352 pp.; sewed
Note: reprint of the preceding. 500 copies
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1927. 18,5 x 12 cm; 352 pp.; sewed
Note: reprint of the preceding. 550 copies.
A TRAVERS CHANTS – ÉTUDES MUSICALES, ADORATIONS BOUTADES ET CRITIQUES
Westmead, Farnborough (Hants): Gregg International Publishers, 1970 (Collected
Literary Works V). 19 cm; 336 pp.; hardcover; 0-576-28422-X
Note: facsimile of the first edition
Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1982 (Collected Literary Works V).
Hardcover; 0-576-28422-X
Note: reprint of the preceding
Elibron Classics, 2001. 352 pp., paperback
Note: facsimile of the 1872 edition
Guichard edition
A TRAVERS CHANTS
Texte établi avec notes et choix de variantes par Léon Guichard. Préface
de Jacques Chailley
*Paris: Gründ, 1971 (Œuvres littéraires:
Édition du centenaire). 21 x 15 cm; 488 pp.; frontispiece + [23] pp. ill.;
hardcover with dust jacket; 2-7000-2107
[7]-16 Préface, [17]-367 text: À Travers Chants, [369]-370 Avertissement, [371]-436 Notes, [437]-471 Choix de variantes, [473]-479 Appendices ([473] I – Les éditions, [474]-477 II – L’accueil de la presse, [478]-479 III – Les traductions), [481]-483 Index des noms, [485]-486 Index des œuvres, [487]-488 Table des matières
Note: abundantly annotated edition. Text of the original 1862 edition, with
modernised spelling
*Paris: Gründ, 1998 (Œuvres littéraires: Édition du centenaire).
21 x 14,5 cm; 488 pp.; frontispiece + [23] pp. ill.; paperback; 2-7000-2107-X
Note: reprint of the preceding
Fragments
RICHARD WAGNER: ŒUVRES EN PROSE
Traduit [...] par J.-G. Prodhomme et L. Van Vassenhove
Paris, 1907-24. 13 volumes
Note: volume VIII (Paris, 1913) includes: Wagner et Berlioz: Concerts de M.
Richard Wagner; La musique de l’avenir. Apparently these texts by Berlioz from À Travers Chants are included in this edition
ETUDE CRITIQUE DES SYMPHONIES DE BEETHOVEN. FIDELIO
Vienne [Austria]: Rhombus-Verlags-Aktiengesellschaft, [1924]
(Bibliothèque Rhombus 249). 16mo; 88 pp.
Note: these texts are supposed to be taken from À Travers Chants
BEETHOVEN, L’ŒUVRE ET LA VIE. TEXTES DE K. AMENDA, BERLIOZ, DEBUSSY,
GOETHE, [...], WAGNER
Textes réunis par Edmond Buchet
Editions Les Libraires Associés, 1963. 262 pp.
Note: I have no idea of what this edition includes; possibly texts taken from À Travers Chants
GERMAN TRANSLATIONSRichard Pohl
A TRAVERS CHANTS. MUSIKALISCHE STUDIEN, HULDIGUNGEN, EINFÄLLE UND KRITIKEN
Autorisierte Deutsche Ausgabe von Richard Pohl
*Leipzig: Gustav Heinze, 1864 (Gesammelte
Schriften I). 19 x 13,5 cm; vi, 400 pp.
[v]-vi Inhalt, [1]-400 text with scarce annotation
Note: printed in black letter. Hopkinson 86E
Uebersetzt und herausgegeben von Richard Pohl
*Leipzig: F. E. C. Leuckart, 1877 (Gesammelte
Schriften I). 19,5 x 13 cm; vi, 400 pp.
Note: reprint of the preceding
Elly Ellès
MUSIKALISCHE STREIFZÜGE. STUDIEN, VERGÖTTERUNGEN, AUSFÄLLE UND KRITIKEN
Aus dem Französischen übertragen von Elly Ellès
*Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1912 (Literarische Werke VI). 20,5 x 14 cm; 299 pp.
[v] dedication, [vii]-[viii] Inhaltsverzeichnis; 1-[300] text
Note: printed in black letter. Hopkinson 86F
*Walluf: Dr. Martin Sändig, 1974. 21 x 15 cm; 299 pp.; hardcover; 3-500-29340-9
Note: facsimile of the preceding
Vaduz (Liechtenstein): Sändig Reprint Verlag, 1993. vii, 300 pp., hardcover;
3253029344
Note: facsimile of the 1912 edition
Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 2004 (Literarische Werke VI). 21 cm; paperback;
3-89007-571-1
Note: facsimile of the 1912 edition, edited by Matthias Brzoska
Fragments
SCHRIFTEN. BETRACHTUNGEN EINES MUSIKALISCHEN ENTHUSIASTEN
Ausgewählt, herausgegeben und kommentiert von Frank Heidlberger. Übersetzt
von Dagmar Kreher
*Kassel: Bärenreiter; Stuttgart und Weimar: J.
B. Metzler, 2002. 23,5 x 15,5 cm; 284 pp.; ill.; hardback with dust jacket;
3-7618-1568-9 (Bärenreiter) / 3-476-01932-2 (Metzler)
[5]-[7] Inhalt, 9-13 Vorwort, 14-26 Ein Leben für das
Schreiben – schreiben um zu überleben. Einleitende Bemerkungen zu Berlioz als
Musikliterat und Kritiker, 27-253 text with introductions, 255-284
Anhang (Anmerkungen, Quellenverzeichnis, Ausgewählte Literatur, Erläuterungen zu Personen und Werken, Personen- und Werkregister)
Note: an amply commented collection of texts by Berlioz. Includes the complete
text of the following chapters from À Travers Chants:
| pp.: | title: | translation of: |
| 38- 48 | Musik | Musique |
| 54- 57 | Einige Worte über die Trios und Sonaten (...) | Quelques mots sur les trios et sonates de Beethoven |
| 57- 61 | Beethoven im Ring des Saturn | Beethoven dans l’anneau de Saturne |
| 61- 63 | Schlechte Sänger, gute Sänger | Les mauvais chanteurs, les bons chanteurs |
| 68- 77 | Richard-Wagner-Konzerte | Concerts de Richard Wagner |
| 85- 95 | Glucks Orpheus im Théâtre Lyrique | L’Orphée de Gluck, au Théâtre-Lyrique |
| 95-109 | Fidelio, Oper in drei Akten von Beethoven | Fidelio, opéra en trois actes de Beethoven |
| 109-113 | Der Freischütz von Weber | Le Freischütz de Weber |
See also: Les Soirées de l’Orchestre, Les Grotesques de la Musique
ENGLISH TRANSLATIONSEdward Evans
MID REALMS OF SONG, a complete translation of À Travers Chants in three separately published volumes:
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 from the French by Edwin Evans, senr.
*London: Wm Reeves, [1913]. 18,5 x 12,5 cm; xii,
165 pp. + 48 pp. publisher’s catalogue; frontispiece; hardcover
[v] Publisher’s Note, [vii] Contents, [ix]-xii Translator’s Introductory Note; [1]-165 text; [1]-48 Reeves’ Musical Literature List
Note: printed by The New Temple Press, 17 Grant Road, Croydon. Apart from
the chapters mentioned in the title, this volume includes Beethoven in the
Ring of Saturn (The Mediums). Hopkinson 83 D
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1918]
Note: American edition, identical to preceding.
London: William Reeves, [1958]. Hardcover
Note: reprint of the 1913 edition
St. Clair Shores, Mich.: Scholarly Press, 1977 [or 1970, 1974, 1976]. 23 cm;
165 pp.; 0-403-01508-1
Note: facsimile of the 1958 Reeves edition
Temecula, CA: Reprint Services Corporation, 1988. 0-7812-0736-3
Brighton, Mich.: Native American Book Publishers, 1990. xii, 165 pp.; 1-878592-13-0
Note: facsimile of the 1958 Reeves edition
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. 165 pp.; paperback; 0252069420
Note: preface by D. Kern Holoman
New York: Turtle Point Press, 2002. Paperback; 1-885586-77-9
GLUCK & HIS OPERAS WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR RELATION TO MUSICAL ART
Translated from the French by Edwin Evans, senr.
*London: Wm. Reeves, [1915]. 19 x 12,5 cm; xiv, 167
pp. + 48 pp. publisher’s catalogue; frontispiece; hardcover
[iii] title page, [v] Publisher’s note, [vii]-viii Contents, ix-xiv Introduction [by Edwin Evans]; 1-167 text
Note: printed by The New Temple Press, Norbury Crescent, S.W. This volume
includes the chapters on Gluck’s Orphée and Alceste. Hopkinson 86H
London: William Reeves, 1972. 161 pp. + 28 pp. advertisements; hardcover with
dust jacket; 7211-0030-9
Note: reprint of the preceding
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, [1973]. 20 cm; xiv, 167 pp.; frontispiece;
hardcover; 0-8371-6938-0
Note: facsimile of the 1915 Reeves edition
Temecula, Ca.: Reprint Services Corporation, 1988; 0-7812-0474-7
MOZART, WEBER AND WAGNER, WITH VARIOUS ESSAYS ON MUSICAL SUBJECTS
Translated from the French by Edwin Evans
*London: Wm. Reeves, [1918]. 18 x 12,5 cm; xiv,
216 pp. + 48 pp. publisher’s catalogue; [4] pp. ill., frontispiece; hardcover
[iii] title page, [v]-vi Index, [vii] List of Illustrations,
ix-xiv Introduction; 1-173 text; [1]-[48] Reeves’ Musical Literature List
Note: printed by The New Temple Press, Norbury Crescent, Norbury, S. W. This
volume includes all texts not included in the previous two volumes. Also
includes a fold-out facsimile of a letter by Berlioz as frontispiece. Hopkinson 86J
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [1913]
Note: American edition, identical to preceding.
*London: William Reeves, 1969. 19 x 12,5 cm; xiv, 173 pp. + 28 pp. publisher’s catalogue; frontispiece; hardcover with dust jacket; SBN 7211-0001-5
Note: printed by Lowe and Brydone Limited, London. Reprint of the 1918 edition,
omitting the title pages of the separate chapters and the illustrations, but
adding a Publisher’s note
St. Clair Shores, Mich.: Scholarly Press, 1977 or 1976. 0-403-08963-8
New York: Somerset Publishers, 1986
Note: facsimile of the 1918 Reeves edition
Temecula, Ca.: Reprint Services Corporation, 1988; 0-7812-0566-2
Elisabeth Csicsery-Rónay
THE ART OF MUSIC AND OTHER ESSAYS (A TRAVERS CHANTS)
Translated and Edited by Elisabeth Csicsery-Rónay. Foreword by Jacques
Barzun
*Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
24 x 16 cm; xiv, 274 pp.; frontispiece; ill.; hardcover with dust jacket; 0-253-31164-0
[v]-vi Contents, [vii] Illustrations, [ix]-xii Foreword by
Jacques Barzun, [xiii]-xiv Translator’s Note, xv Acknowledgements; [1]-[231] text: The Art of Music and Other Essays, [232]-269 Notes, [270]-274 Index
Note: an amply annotated edition, which aims at giving an idiomatic English
rendering of the original text rather than a literal word-for-word translation
Fragments
HECTOR BERLIOZ. SELECTIONS FROM HIS LETTERS, AND ÆSTHETIC, HUMOROUS, AND
SATIRICAL WRITINGS
Translated, and preceded by a biographical sketch of the author by William F.
Apthorp
*New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1879
(Amateur Series). 19 x 12,5 cm; ix, 427 pp.; musical ex.; hardcover
[iii]-vi Translator’s Preface, [vii]-ix Table of Contents;
[1]-77 Biographical Sketch, [79]-402 text, [403]-421 Appendices,
[423]-427 Index/
Note: a collection of texts by Berlioz. Includes the section Selections
from "A travers chants" (pp. 355-402):
| pp.: | title: | translation of: |
| 357-370 | Music. | Musique. |
| 371-375 | Beethoven in Saturn’s Ring.-The Mediums. | Beethoven dans l’anneau de Saturne; Les médiums |
| 376-391 | The Present Condition of the Art of Singing in the Lyric Theatres of France and Italy. | Sur l’état actuel de l’art du chant dans les théâtres lyriques de France et d’Italie... |
| 392-394 | The Bad Singers, the Good Singers. – The Public. – The Claqueurs. | Les mauvais chanteurs, les bons chanteurs; Le public, les claqueurs |
| 400-402 | To be, or not to be.-Paraphrase. | To be, or not to be; Paraphrase |
The chapter The Freyschütz at the Opéra included in this section (pp. 395-399) is not an extract from À Travers Chants but from the Mémoires. Hopkinson 86G. See also: Les Soirées de l’Orchestre, Les Grotesques de la Musique, Mémoires
Portland, Me.: Longwood Press, 1976. ix, 427 pp.; 0-89341-018-7
Note: facsimile of preceding
THE CRITICAL COMPOSER. THE MUSICAL WRITINGS OF BERLIOZ, WAGNER, SCHUMANN, TCHAIKOVSKY, AND OTHERS
Edited by Irving Kolodin/i>
<*New York: Howell, Soskin & Co., 1940. 18,5
x 11,5 cm; 275 pp.; hardcover
Note: the chapter entitled On Beethoven, pp. 21-60, consists of the
analyses of the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th symphonies plus the introduction preceding
these. These texts are taken from Edwin Evans’s translation A Critical
Study of Beethoven’s Nine Symphonies (see above), without mentioning the translator. See also: Traité, Les Soirées de l’Orchestre and Mémoires
A CRITICAL APPRECIATION OF BEETHOVEN’S NINE SYMPHONIES AND HIS ONLY OPERA, FIDELIO, WITH ITS FOUR OVERTURES
Compiled and translated by Ralph De Sola
Boston: Crescendo Publishing Co., [1975]. 24 cm; 62 pp.; paperback; 0-87597-094-X
Note: partial translation of À Travers Chants
THE COMPOSER AS LISTENER: A GUIDE TO MUSIC
[Edited by Irving Kolodin]
New York: Horizon Press, 1958. 300 pp.; hardcover; with an index of authors.
Note: A collection of pieces authored by composers, with emphasis on the works of other composers – Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner, Grieg, Debussy, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, and others. I don’t know which fragment(s) by Berlioz in included. Reprinted 1962 as a paperback.
THE ATTENTIVE LISTENER: THREE CENTURIES OF MUSIC CRITICISM
Edited by Harry Haskell
London/Boston: Faber and Faber, 1995. 24 x 16 cm; 398 pp.; hardcover; 0-571-16145-6
Note: most texts in this edition are translated by Harry Haskell. They include
the chapter entitled Beethoven in the Ring of Saturn: Mediums, Journal des
débats (24 November 1860) (pp. 132-135). This title suggests that the
translation is of the original feuilleton rather than of the chapter from À
Travers Chants
ITALIAN TRANSLATIONSFragments
L’EUROPA MUSICALE DA GLUCK A WAGNER
A cura di Fedele d’Amico
*[Torino]: Giulio Einaudi editore, 1950 (Saggi
124). 21 x 16 cm; 345 pp.; musical ex.; paperback
7-8 Indice, 11-30 Prefazione, 33-332 text with annotation,
[333]-339 Indice dei nomi
Note: a collection of texts by Berlioz. The following fragments are taken
from À Travers Chants:
| pp.: | title: | translation of: | corresponding pp. in the Guichard edition: |
| 33-45 | La musica | Musique | 21-34 |
| 54-60 | Gluck | L’Alceste d’Euripide… [fragment: Nous avons (...) langue de convention.] |
172-178 |
| 67-106 | Beethoven | Étude critique des symphonies de Beethoven | 35-79 |
| 115-119 | Weber: Oberon | Obéron, opéra fantastique de Ch.-M. Weber [fragment: Il faudrait écrire (...) chevillée dans le corps.] |
258-263 |
| 131-142 | Wagner | Concerts de Richard Wagner | 321-333 |
| 315-318 | Popolarità sospette - Teatri grandi e piccoli |
Lignes écrites quelque temps après la première représentation… [fragment: Orphée commence (...) des traits des acteurs] |
147-150 |
See also: Voyage Musical, Les Soirées de l’Orchestre, Les Grotesques de la Musique, À Travers Chants
LETTERE A ORFEO
[A cura di Alessandro Taverna]
Varese, Zecchini Editore, 2005. 15 x 21 cm; 132 pp.; ill.; 88-87203-32-6
Note: texts (mostly letters by Berlioz) concerning the reprise of Gluck’s Orphée in Paris in 1859. Includes both texts from À Travers Chants written after this reprise: L’Orphée de Gluck au Théâtre Lyrique and Lignes écrites quelque temps après la première représentation d’Orphée.
SPANISH TRANSLATIONSFragments
LAS SINFONIAS DE BEETHOVEN. ESTUDIO CRÍTICO
Precedido de la biografía del gran maestro por A. Elwart. Versión
castellana de F. M. A.
Madrid: Editor Antonio Romero, 1870. 16 cm; 80 pp.
Note: probably these are texts taken from À Travers Chants
LA MÚSICA Y LOS MÚSICOS
Versión española de José Mª Borrás
Barcelona: Sociedad General de Publicaciones, [c. 1930]. 21 x 13,5 cm; 242
pp.
Note: according to one source, this edition includes the chapter on Beethoven’s symphonies from À Travers Chants
Barcelona: Ediciones Ave, 1941. 17 x 11 cm; 254 pp.; hardcover with dust
jacket
Note: new edition of preceding
Barcelona: Ediciones Ave, 1942 (Pentagrama). 17 x 11 cm; 254 pp.
Note: reprint of preceding
Barcelona: Ediciones Ave, 1949. 17 x 11 cm; 254 pp.
Note: reprint of preceding
LAS SINFONÍAS DE BEETHOVEN Y MÚSICOS ILUSTRES
[Traducción al castellano de Ricardo Peña]
Buenos Aires: S. Rueda, [1941]. 20 cm; 206 pp.
Note: texts possibly taken from À Travers Chants
C. H. PARRY Y H. BERLIOZ
BEETHOVEN. SU VIDA Y SUS OBRAS
Barcelona: Ediciones Ave, 1955 (Collección Mozart). 16 x 12 cm; 196 pp.; ill.;
hardcover with dust jacket
Note: I have no idea of what this edition includes; possibly texts taken from À Travers Chants
Barcelona: Ediciones Ave, 1963 (Collección Mozart). 16 x 12 cm; 196 pp.;
ill.; hardcover with dust jacket
Note: reprint of preceding
BERLIOZ ESCRITOR
Selección de textos, traducción y prólogo de Victoria Llort Llopart
*Barcelona: Editorial Tizona, 2005 (Tizona
música 1). 21 x 15 cm; 224 pp.; ill.; musical ex.; paperback; 84-934268-0-6
7-9 Indice, 11-25 Prólogo, 27-332 text with scarce annotation,
219-222 Selección bibliográfica, 223-224 Tabla de illustraciones
Note: a collection of texts by Berlioz. Includes the section Canto a
través (pp. 85-107) with the following chapters from À Travers Chants:
| pp.: | title: | translation of: |
| 85-99 | Sobre el estado actual del arte del canto... | Sur l’état actuel de l’art du chant... |
| 99-101 | Los malos cantantes, los buenos cantantes... | Les mauvais chanteurs, les bons chanteurs... |
| 101-103 | Los sonidos altos y los sonidos bajos... | Les sons hauts et les sons bas... |
| 103-105 | Se acercan los tiempos (small cut) | Les temps sont proches |
| 105-107 | Ser o no ser. Paráfrasis | To be or not to be, paraphrase |
This edition also contains a translation of the chapter Musique (entitled Sobre la música en general, pp. 175-187), but for some unknown reason this is based on the earlier version in the Voyage Musical. The translation of the fragments from À Travers Chants, based on the original 1862 edition, aims at staying as close to the original as possible in every respect. See also: Traité d’Instrumentation, Voyage Musical, Les Soirées de l’Orchestre, Les Grotesques de la Musique
DUTCH TRANSLATIONFragment
A translation from the chapter VI. Symphonie pastorale, part of the Étude critique des symphonies de Beethoven from A travers chants (pp. 55-60, Guichard edition), appeared in Caecilia, 1 July 1864, pp. 133-135, titled Van Beethoven’s Pastorale Symphonie, door Hector Berlioz.
RUSSIAN TRANSLATIONSFragments
Pyotr Il’ich Tchaikovsky quotes an extended excerpt from the essay Le Freyschütz de Weber from À Travers Chants in his own translation in the paper Русские ведомости of 23 April 1873 (see his feuilleton The Italian opera, republished in: Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Музыкально-критические статьи. Moscow, 1953, pp. 153-154).
Another translation of Berlioz’s article appeared in the periodical Русская Музыкальная Газета of 1901 (nr. 48), signed with “M.”
СИМФОНИИ
БЕТХОВЕНА.
КРИТИЧЕСКИЙ
ОЧЕРК
Перевод с
французского
Л.Б. Хавкиной
С.-Петербург:
В. Бессель и Ко, 1896. Octavo; 61 pp.
Note: this is a translation of the Étude critique des symphonies de
Beethoven from À Travers Chants. This translation was first
published in 1892 in the Moscow-based journal Артист (nr. 22). 1200 copies.
ИЗБРАННЫЕ
СТАТЬИ
Составление,
переводы,
вступительная
статья и
примечания В.Н.
Александровой
и Е.Ф. Бронфин
Москва:
Музгиз, 1956. 21 cm; 406 pp.; ill.; hardback
3-4 Предисловие,
5-[30] Гектор
Берлиоз — музыкальный
критик, [31]-352 texts, [353]-395 Примечания,
396-404 Именной
указатель, 405-[406]
Содержание
Note: a collection of texts by Berlioz. The section „Среди
песен".
Статьи из
сборника. includes the
following chapters from À Travers Chants:
| pp. | title: | translation of: | translator: |
| 159-166 | Музыка | Musique [with cuts] | Aleksandrova |
| 166-205 | Критический очерк о симфониях Бетховена.* | Étude critique… [with cuts] | Khavkina, edited by Aleksandrova |
| 205-209 | Несколько слов о трио и сонатах Бетховена | Quelques mots... [small cuts] | Bronfin |
| 209-226 | «Фиделио». Опера в трёх действиях Бетховена | Fidelio, opéra en trois actes… | Bronfin |
| 227-234 | О современном состоянии вокального искусства в оперных театрах Франции и Италии и о причинах этого состояния. Большие залы, клакеры, ударные инструменты. Отрывки из статьи. | Sur l’etat actuel... [excerpts] | Aleksandrova |
| 234-236 | Плохие певцы, хорошие певцы, публика, клакеры. | Les mauvais chanteurs... | Bronfin |
| 236-249 | «Орфей» Глюка в Лирическом театре. | L’Orphée de Gluck... [small cuts] | Bronfin |
| 250-257 | [По поводу «Альцесты» Глюка]. | L’Alceste d’Euripide... [excerpts] | Bronfin |
| 257-258 | [Полина Виардо в роли Альцесты из оперы Глюка «Альцеста»]. | Reprise de l’Alceste... [an excerpt] | Bronfin |
| 258-264 | «Фрейшютц» Вебера. | Le Freyschütz de Weber | Aleksandrova |
| 264-274 | «Оберон». Фантастическая опера К.М. Вебера. | Obéron… [small cuts] | Bronfin |
| 274-287 | Концерты Рихарда Вагнера. Музыка будущего. | Concerts de Richard Wagner… | Aleksandrova. |
* This is an edited version of the translation published separately as Симфонии Бетховена (see above).
ROMANIAN TRANSLATIONSIleana Ratiu
ÎN LUMEA CÎNTULUI. STUDII MUZICALE, APOLOGII, BUTADE SI CRITICI
[Translated by Ileana Ratiu]
Bucuresti: Editura muzicala, 1982. 239 pp.; paperback
Note: this is a complete translation of À Travers Chants
Fragments
SIMFONIILE LUI BEETHOVEN
[Translated by Maximilian Costin]
Bucuresti: Viata româneasca. 83 pp.
Note: possibly a partial translation of À Travers Chants
JAPANESE TRANSLATIONSFragments
KINDAI NO KOKYOKYOKU
[Kakutan Morimoto]
Tokyo: Nihongakkiseizoshuppanbu, 1943. 19 cm; 247 pp.
Note: I have no idea of what this edition includes; possibly texts taken from À Travers Chants
BEETHOVEN NO KOKYOKYOKU
[Translated by Seiji Tachibana]
Tokyo: Kadokawa-shoten, 1959. 280 pp.
Note: includes the chapter on Beethoven’s symphonies, taken from À Travers Chants
AcknowledgementWe would like to express our gratitude to our friend Pepijn van Doesburg for this valuable contribution to the site.
Our sincere thanks also to our friend Elena Dolenko for providing the details of the texts from À Travers Chants which appeared in the Izbrannye stat’i collection and the information on Pyotr Il’ich Tchaikovsky’s excerpt from Le Freyschütz de Weber and on the article in Russkaya Muzykal’naya Gazeta, listed under Russian Translations. She also kindly provided the Russian titles of all the publications included in this section.
This page was created by Monir Tayeb and Michel Austin on 1 November 2005; subsequent additions and updates made since.
Copyright: 2005 Pepijn van Doesburg. All rights of reproduction reserved.
Related pages on this site:
The full French text of À Travers Chants
Excerpts from the composer’s correspondence (in French, introduction in English)
Berlioz’s Writings
Berlioz: Musical and Literary Works
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