by
Michael Wright
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As you may know, the eminent Berlioz scholar Michael Wright has written a seminal book, now out of print, entitled, A Berlioz Bibliography: Critical writings on Hector Berlioz from 1825 to 1986, published in 1987 (Farnborough: St Michael’s Abbey Press, ISBN 0-907077). This book has a section devoted to the year 1903. We are grateful to Michael Wright for giving us permission to reproduce this section of his book here. All rights of reproduction are reserved and remain with Mr Wright.
The year of the centenary of Berlioz’s birth produced a spate of writing, not all of it remarkable. In the same issue of a journal serious discussion of his work can often be found side by side with notes and gossip, celebrations and speeches. In the following section certain groups of articles found close neighbours in the run of a single magazine (e.g. in special Berlioz numbers) have been treated together. Where this happens, and it is inconvenient to divorce the more ephemeral article from the purely critical, the ephemeral has been included, the whole being allotted one number, and considered as one item.
The following work, LE LIVRE D’OR DU CENTENAIRE D’HECTOR BERLIOZ, with no date of publication given, has a Preface dated 1906, and was probably published the next year. Since, however, it consists largely of articles written in 1903, it is included here out of strict chronological order of publication. Full details are given.
1. LE LIVRE D’OR DU CENTENAIRE D’HECTOR BERLIOZ. Paris, Petit, n.d., vi, 227 p., ports.
(Contents:– Avant-propos. Louis Lantelme: Le centenaire d’Hector Berlioz à Grenoble. Première partie: Festival Berlioz à Grenoble. Speeches by Jules de Beylié, Charles Rivail, M. Saige, M. Meyer. Programme of concerts. Extracts from the press. – Frankfurter Zeitung Sep 8 1903; Morning Post Aug 21 1903; Daily Messenger Aug 21/2 1903; L’Art Moderne (Octave Mans) Aug 23 1903; Guide Musical (H. Imbert) Aug 23/30 1903; Ménestrel (J. Tiersot) Aug 23 1903; Courrier Musical (Victor Debay) Sep 1 1903; Monde Musical (A. Mangeot) Aug 30 1903; Progrès Artistique Sep 17 1903; Journal Musical (Edouard Guyot) Sep 1 1903; Revue Théâtrale (Henri Eymieu) Sep 1 1903; Temps Aug 19 1903; Soir (J.-G. Prod’homme) Sep 3 1903, reproduced in Zeitschrift der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft Sep 1903: Journal des Débats (André Hallays) Aug 21 1903; Écho de Paris Aug 17 1903; République de l’Isère Aug 17/18 1903; Petit Dauphinois Aug 17/18 1903; Dépêche Dauphinoise Aug 18/19 1903; Droit du Peuple Aug 18 1903. Deuxième partie: Hector Berlioz et les artistes de notre temps. A Jullien: Préface: Hector Berlioz. A. Boschot: La première de la Prise de Troie (Nov 1899); A. Bruneau: Hector Berlioz (June 13 1903); E. Colonne: Interprétation des œuvres d’Hector Berlioz; A. Dorville: Berlioz et Scudo; H. Eymieu: Le Requiem; E. Garnier: Roméo et Juliette (first performance Nov 1839); H. Gauthier-Villars: Hector Berlioz; A. Grasse: Le Requiem; H. Imbert: Histoire d’un buste et d’un portrait de Berlioz; H. Kling: Le Grand Traité d’Instrumentation et d’Orchestration Moderne; A. Lascoux: Berlioz; C. Maclean: Berlioz et l’Angleterre; A. Mangeot: Comment on peut connaître et aimer Berlioz; H. Maréchal: Discours; E. Reyer: Discours; C. Saint-Saëns: Pour le centenaire d’Hector Berlioz, poésie; C. Saint-Saëns. Discours lu à l’inauguration du Musée Berlioz à La Côte Saint André: E. Schuré: Le génie de Berlioz; H. Second: À Berlioz, poésie; E. de Solenière: L’influence de Berlioz. A. Soubiès: Le Livre d’Or de Berlioz; J. Tiersot: Conférence faite le 17 août 1903 (cf. Ménestrel Aug 23 1903); F. Weingartner: Hector Berlioz; A. Winogradsky: Hector Berlioz; T. S. Wotton: Le centenaire d’Hector Berlioz; Catalogue of Hector Berlioz exhibition, Frankfurt. Genealogy of Berlioz’s family – folding plates.)
2. PROD’HOMME (Jacques-Gabriel) ‘La Damnation de Faust de Berlioz au Théâtre’; Weekly Critical Review v 1 p 23
February
3. BOUYER (Raymond) ‘Petites notes sans portée. Pour le centenaire d’un maître français’; Ménestrel 69A no 6 Feb 8 p 42-3
4. BOUTAREL (Amédée) ‘Une lettre de Berlioz à Goethe’; Ménestrel v 69 Feb 15, p 52-3
March
5. COMBARIEU (Jules) ‘La Damnation de Faust au Théâtre de Monte Carlo (7 mars)’; Revue Musicale 3A no 3 Mar p 113-7
6. REYER (Ernest) ‘La jeunesse et les souffrances d’Hector Berlioz’; Annales Politiques et Littéraires Mar 8
7. FOURCAUD (Louis de) ‘Le centenaire de Berlioz’; Semaine Française Mar 15
8. IMBERT (Hugues) ‘La statue d’Hector Berlioz à Monte Carlo’; Guide Musical 49A no 11 Mar 15 p 228-30
9. ANON. ‘Inauguration du monument Berlioz à Monte Carlo’; Ménestrel 69A no 11 Mar 15 p 84
10. BOUYER (Raymond) ‘Petites notes sans portée. Un portrait d’Hector Berlioz’; Ménestrel, 69A no 12-15 (3756-9) Mar 22, 29, Apr 5, 12 p 92-3, 100, 106-7, 115-6
11. RIKOFF (Max) (On Monte Carlo celebrations); Neue Zeitschrift für Musik v 70 no 13 Mar 25 p 206-8
April
12. HALLAYS (André) ‘Hector Berlioz: critique musical’; Revue de Paris 10A v 2 no 7 Apr 1 p 560-95 (On B as a critic.)
– (pub. contemporaneously in) BERLIOZ (Louis Hector) Les musiciens et la musique. Introduction par André Hallays. Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1903, 1, 348 p. (p i-xlviii.)
– (extracts repr. in) HALLAYS (André) ‘L’esthétique de Berlioz’; Guide Musical 49A no 24, 25 Jun 14, 21 1903 p 483-6
13. MÉRY (Jules) ‘Le centenaire de Berlioz à Monte Carlo’; Revue Illustrée 13A v 35 no 8 Apr 1 (9 p.) (Interesting photographs and illus.)
14. LEGOUVÉ (Ernest) ‘Hector Berlioz’; Monde Musical Apr 15, 30, May 15, Jun 15 (Eng. tr. of pt. of Soixante ans de souvenirs, 1886.)
May
15. LEFÈVRE (Maurice) ‘La Damnation de Faust’; Musica 2A no 8 May 1 p 116-7 (A history of the work after B’s death.)
16. FOURCAUD (Louis de) ‘Berlioz et Wagner’; Gaulois May 7
– (repr. in) Annales Politiques et Littéraires 28A v 54 no 1406 Jun 5 1910 (p 560.)
17. FAURÉ (Gabriel) (On DF – Gunsbourg); Figaro May 9
– (repr. in) FAURÉ (Gabriel) Opinions musicales ... Paris, Rieder, 1930, 174 p. (On B p 17-23; on Damnation de Faust May 9 1903; on Roméo et Juliette Dec 14 1903; on Damnation de Faust and Enfance du Christ Dec 28 1903; on Requiem Jan 25 1904; on Troyens Jun 9 1921.)
18. JULLIEN (Adolphe) ‘Revue musicale. Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt. La Damnation de Faust’; Journal des Débats 115A no 129 May 10 p 1 (A strong protest against producing the work as an opera.)
19. POUGIN (Arthur) (On DF – Gunsbourg); Ménestrel 69A no 19 (3763) May 10 p 147 (Review.)
20. ALLIX (G. ) Sur les éléments dont s’est formée la personalité artistique de Berlioz ... Grenoble, Allier; Paris, Fischbacher, 72 p. (Extrait du Bulletin de l’Académie Delphinale 4 sér v 17 p 8-75) (Text of a talk given May 15 1903. The influence of Virgil, Spontini, Gluck, Weber, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Goethe, etc.)
21. FOURNIER (Paul) (Reply to the above); Bulletin de l’Académie Delphinale 4 sér v 17 p 76-90
22. MENDÈS (Catulle) ‘Hector Berlioz’; Courrier Musical May 15 (By a broad-minded Wagnerite.)
23. GAUTHIER-VILLARS (Henri) ‘Berlioz et Wagner’; Renaissance Latine May 15 p 410
24. CURZON (Henri de) ‘La Damnation de Faust au Théâtre à Paris’; Guide Musical 49A no 20, 21 May 17, 24 p 440-2
25. DEBUSSY (Claude) ‘Berlioz et M. Gunzbourg’; Gil Blas May 19
26. BOISARD (Auguste) ‘La Damnation de Faust’; Monde Illustré May 23
27. CELLE (Jean) ‘La vocation musicale d’Hector Berlioz’; La Vie Musicale May 28 p 226 (on B’s early excursions into music.)
June
28. CASTÉRA (René de) ‘La Damnation de Faust de Berlioz par M. Raoul Gunsbourg’; Occident no 19 Jun 1 p 359-64
29. FOURNIER (Paul) ‘Commémoration de H. Berlioz. Allocution prononcée par M. Paul Fournier au début de la séance solennelle donnée par l’Académie Delphinale à la Salle des Concerts, le 5 juin 1903’; Bulletin de l’Académie Delphinale 4 sér v 17 p 120-4
30. MANGEOT (A.) ‘Comment on devrait célébrer le centenaire de Berlioz’; Monde Musical 15A no 12 Jun 30 p 190, 194
July
31. BELLAIGUE (Camille) ‘Revue musicale. “La Damnation de Faust” au Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt’; Revue des Deux Mondes 5 sér v 16 Jul 1 p 220-8 (As an opera, a failure.)
32. E[DWARDS] (F[rederick] G[eorge] ) ‘Berlioz in England: a centenary retrospect’ ; Musical Times v 44 Jul 1, Aug 1, Oct 1, Nov 1 p 441-9, 520-3, 654-6, 714-7 (Very full and useful on B’s visits to England. Quotes letters, extracts from reviews.)
33. NEWMARCH (Rosa) ‘Berlioz in Russia’; Musical Record v 33 no 391 Jul 1 p 122-3 (Contains new correspondence, sidelights on B’s visits, etc.)
34. BOUYER (Raymont) ‘Petites notes sans portée: note sur la trinité romantique: Hugo, Delacroix, Berlioz’; Ménestrel v 69 Jul 12 p 219-20
35. SIVRY (A. de) ‘L’idéalisme passionel de Berlioz’; Monde Musical no 13 Jul 15 p 202-4
36. DAURIAC (Lionel) ‘La musique à Paris. La Damnation de Faust “au théâtre”; Zeitschrift der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft v 4 no 10 Jul p 608-13
37. M., L. ‘La Damnation de Faust’ au Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt’; Art du Théâtre no 31 Jul p 101-4 (Contains illus. of the sets, etc.)
August
38. ADAM (Adolphe Charles) ‘Lettres sur la musique française 1836-1850’; Revue de Paris pts. 1-5: 1OA v 4 no 15, 16 Aug 1, 15 p 449-81, 726-62; 10A v 5 Sep 1, 15, Oct 1 p 137-76, 275-320, 604-52 (Adam’s correspondence with Spiker, Frederick William III’s librarian – incl. frank comments on B.)
39. M., A. ‘Hector Berlioz’; Musical Standard v 20 no 50l Aug 8 p 81 (Commemorating the anniversary. A few notes on DF.)
40. Revue Musicale 3A no 10 Aug 15 (BERLIOZ NUMBER) (p 403-5: “Hector Berlioz”, by Jules Combarieu; p. 405-9: “Documents biographiques sur Hector Berlioz: une lettre du compositeur”, by A. Lascoux; p 410-7: “À propos d’Hector Berlioz. Quatre lettres inédites”; p 418-21: “Henriette Smithson”; p 421-6: “Anecdotes sur Berlioz racontées par Stephen Heller et M. Camille Saint-Saëns” (repr. Heller’s open letter of 1879); p 426-30: “Lettres inédites de Berlioz”, ed. Julien Tiersot; p 431. “Berlioz jugé par M. Camille Saint-Saëns”; p. 431-3: “Berlioz jugé par Richard Wagner”; p 433: “Berlioz jugé par M. Hugo Riemann”; p 434-7: “Les idées de Berlioz sur la musique. Sa profession de foi”; p 438-43: “Berlioz critique et écrivain, à propos de deux publications récentes”, by Louis Laloy; p. 444-6 “Notes bibliographiques sur Berlioz”)
41. LE CERCLE D’AIX-LES-BAINS AUX FÊTES DU CENTENAIRE D’HECTOR BERLIOZ À GRENOBLE, 16 ET 17 AOÛT 1903. Aix-les-Bains, Gérente, 30 p. (An account of the celebrations, covering two concerts, and incl. speeches, a poem, and reviews from journals.)
42. BRENET (Michel) [pseud. of Marie BOBILLIER] ‘Berlioz, à propos de son centenaire’; Correspondant v 212 Aug 25 p 711-33
43. ANON. ‘Music: Hector Berlioz’; Athenaeum no 3957 Aug 29 p 295 (Report of the centenary celebrations at Grenoble, Aug 16-17.)
44. MANGEOT (A.) and others ‘Les fêtes du centenaire d’Hector Berlioz à Grenoble et à La Côte-Saint-André; Monde Musical 15A no 16 Aug 30 p 242-6 (Simples réflexions, L’inauguration de la statue, etc., by H. Eymieu, Ode by Saint-Saëns, Discours by M. Reyer.)
45. HADDEN (James Cuthbert) ‘Hector Berlioz’; Macmillan’s Magazine Aug
September
46. ANON. ‘Hector Berlioz’; Monthly Musical Record v 33 no 393 Sep 1 p 166 (on the ceremonies celebrating the centenary.)
47. MACLEAN (Charles) ‘The country of Berlioz’; Musical Times v 44 Sep 1 p 594-6 (On Grenoble and the country around it, on the occasion of the birth centenary. By a thorough Berliozian.)
– (repr. in) Berlioz Society Bulletin no 56 Jan 1967 p 7-11
48. BOUYER (Raymond) ‘Petites notes sans portée: Le génie français jugé par les allemands. I. Berlioz et Schumann. II. Schumann et la “Musique à programme”. III. Berlioz jugé par Wagner. IV. Romantiques bravos et jugements classiques. V. La “Fantastique” et la “Symphonie après Beethoven”’; Ménestrel 69A no 36-40 (3780-4) Sep 6, 13, 20, 27, Oct 4 p 283-5, 290-2, 300-1, 306-8, 316-7
49. IMBERT (Hugues) ‘Le centenaire de Berlioz à La Côte Saint-André’; Guide Musical 49A no 36-7 Sep 6-13 p 623-6 (+ Discours de M. Saint-Saëns p 626-7).
50. ANON. ‘Hector Berlioz et Richard Wagner’; Guide Musical 49A no 38, 39 Sep 20, 27 p 647-8 (Concerning the gift score of Tristan, 1860.)
October
51. BOUYER (Raymond) ‘Berlioz et Wagner en 1903’; Nouvelle Revue new ser v 24 Oct 1 p 417-23
52. PROD’HOMME (Jacques-Gabriel) ‘Konzert’; Die Musik v 3 no 1 Oct, p 77-8 (Review of a concert at the celebrations.)
November
53. ANON (Review); Musical Standard v 20 no 514 Nov 7 p 238 (Review of Hans Richter and Hallé’s concert of B’s music at the Queen’s Hall – the first of the London commemoration concerts. The criticism here is that B is a good orchestrator, but a second-rate composer.)
54. ANON. ‘The Queen’s Hall’ ; Pall Mall Gazette Nov 13 (Review of Felix Weingartner’s concert at the Queen’s Hall – the second of the commemoration concerts. Cléopâtre, the Méditation and the Symphonie Fantastique were played. Compares Cléopâtre to the music of Richard Strauss.)
55. ANON. ‘Berlioz and Shakespeare’; Academy v 65 Nov 14 p 538
56. ANON. (Review); Musical Standard v 20 no 516 Nov 21 p 320 (Review of the second commemoration concert. Comments on the small audience. Cléopâtre is the “dullest piece ever penned by man”.)
57. RUNCIMAN (John F.) ‘Berlioz’; Saturday Review v 96 no 2508 Nov 21 p 638-9 (An uncomplimentary article.)
58. ENGEL’ (Yuliy Dmitrievich) ‘Berlioz i programmaya muzuika’; Russkie Vedomosti no 327 Nov 28
59. KASHKIN (Nikolai Dmitrievich) ‘Gektor Berlioz (1803-1869)’; Moskovskie Vedomosti no 326, 327 Nov 28, 29
60. RUNCIMAN (John F.) ‘Berlioz again’; Saturday Review v 96 no 2509 Nov 28 p 667 (Another uncomplimentary article.)
61. Guide Musical 49A Nov 29 (BERLIOZ NUMBER) (p 1-3: “Le génie de Berlioz”, by Edouard Schuré; p 3-4: “Le romantisme de Berlioz”, by Paul Flat; p 4-8: “Cherubini et Berlioz”, by Félix Grenier; p 7: Facsim. of a feuille d’album of Roméo et Juliette dated Vienne 3 janvier 1846 (Manskopf, Frankfurt); p 8-20: “Hector Berlioz, initiateur de la haute culture musicale”, by H. Imbert; p 15: Facsim. of letter to Pauline Viardot, 25 janvier 1860; p 19: Facsim. of affiche of first performance of Enfance du Christ 10 décembre 1854; p 20-1: “Sur ‘Benvenuto Cellini’”, by Adolphe Jullien; p 21-3 “Le manque d’invention chez Berlioz”, by Felix Weingartner (repr. in Monde Musical Dec 30 1903 and in Gazette Musicale de Bruxelles); p 23-4: “Berlioz et ses contemporains”, by Robert Sand; p 24-7: “Wagner et Berlioz”, by Maurice Kufferath; p 28-31: “Les débuts de Berlioz dans la critique”, by Henri de Curzon; p 31-2 “Hector Berlioz, l’homme dans l’écrivain”, by Lucien Hauman; p 33-9: “Hector Berlioz à Bruxelles”, by Ernest Closson – a very detailed account of B’s visits to Brussells.)
62. Monde Musical 15A no 22 NOV 30 (BERLIOZ NUMBER) (p 335: “Berlioz: souvenirs intimes”, by E. Reyer; p 335: “Souvenirs”, by Camille Saint-Saëns; p 336: “B!” by Alfred Bruneau; p 336-7: “Comment on peut connaître et aimer Berlioz”, by A. Mangeot; p 337-8: “Une lettre inédite de Berlioz à sa sœur”; p. 339-45: “Berlioz et les artistes d’aujourd’hui”, by Georges de Massougne; p 345-7: “L’œuvre dramatique de Berlioz”, by J. d’Offoel; p 348-50: “Le roman d’Estelle”, by A. Mangeot; p 350-3: “Hector Berlioz et Richard Wagner”, by A. M.; p 354-5: “Hector Berlioz et la caricature”, by Louis Huard; p 355: “Un témoignage de Lesueur” (letter to Comte de Martignac); p 336: (three short notes on the centenary) – the issue also contains lithographs by Fantin-Latour.)
December
63. ANON. ‘A friend of Berlioz’; Musical Herald no 669 Dec 1 p 372-3, port. (Edward Silas is quoted, reminiscing on B’s character.)
64. “COMMON TIME” ‘Musical gossip of the month’; Musical 0pinion v 27 no 315 Dec 1 p 197 (A paragraph on B. An example of how little B was really known among some English critics of the time. The author admits ignorance of some of B’s greatest works, but nevertheless goes on to pooh-pooh him as harmonist and polyphonist. Mentions the small audiences at the London commemoration concerts given by Richter and Weingartner.)
65. [EDWARDS (Frederick George)] ‘Berlioziana: a birthday in London’; Musical Times v 44 Dec 1 p 785-7 (Incl. a table of dates and places of first performances of the chief works of B in England.)
66. KEETON (A.E.) ‘Hector Berlioz, 1803-1869’; Fortnightly Review new ser v 74 (old ser v 79) Dec 1 p 928-40 (B as man, writer, lover, musician.)
67. S[HEDLOCK] (J[ohn] S[outh]) ‘Hector Berlioz’; Monthly Musical Record v 33 no 396 Dec 1 p 221-2 (A run-of-the-mill article on the occasion of the centenary.)
68. TIERSOT (Julien) ‘Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)’; Musica 12A no 15 Dec 1 p 230-1 (+ ARMORY – ‘Le Musée Berlioz à La Côte-Saint-André’ p 232) illus.
69. Neue Musik-Zeitung Dec 3 (BERLIOZ NUMBER) (Rudolf Louis on B and Wagner, Kurt Mey on B as a writer, and Max Puttmann – ‘Hector Berlioz und sein Orchester’.)
70. OFFENBACH (Jacques) ‘Causeries musicales’; Ménestrel 69A no 49 Dec 6
71. WOTTON (Tom S.) ‘Hector Berlioz’; Musical Association Proceedings v 30 1903-4 p 15-36 (A lecture read on Dec 8, on B as a musician. The audience’s remarks in the discussion which followed reflect widespread ignorance on B at this time.)
72. Neue Zeitschrift für Musik v 70 no 50 Dec 9 (BERLI0Z NUMBER) (p 645-7: “Hector Berlioz als Gesangkomponist”, by Max Puttmann (on the songs); p 647-8: “Berlioz über seine Vehmrichter Ouvertüre”, by Hugo Hallenstein (on Francs-Juges Overture); p 648-9: “Das Berlioz-Museum in La Côte Saint André”, by Jean Celle; p 649-50: “Hector Berlioz’ musikalische Werke”, by Otto Taubmann; + reviews of Requiem, books, piano arrangement, etc.)
73. JOHNST0NE (Arthur) (The Centenary Celebrations Dec 10 1903); Manchester Guardian
– (repr. in) JOHNSTONE (Arthur) Musical Criticism, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1905, c, 225p. (Chap III: “Berlioz” p 24-32. Articles from the Manchester Guardian on Symphonie Fantastique Nov 1901; on Damnation de Faust Mar 7 1902; and the above article.)
– (all three above articles repr. in) Berlioz Society Bulletin no 68, 69, 71 Jul, Oct 1970, Apr 1971 p 18-20, 20-1, 5-6
74. PITT (Percy) and KALISCH (A.) Analytical notes (for Queen’s Hall concert). Celebration in honour of the centenary of Hector Berlioz (December 11th, 1803 - December 11th, 1903) ... Friday evening, December 11th 1903, at 8 o’clock ... 32p., mus. exs. (Richard Strauss’ concert. Excellent analysis of works played – three movements from Roméo et Juliette, Rêverie et Caprice (quotes “programme” – later discovered to be the work of Tiersot), Francs-Juges Overture, Nuits d’Été (no. 2, 4 and 3), Carnaval Romain Overture. Quotes from Wagner (Oper und Drama), (letter to Liszt); Weingartner (The symphony after Beethoven); Parry (The art of music); and Bruneau (La musique française).)
75. PUTTMANN (Max) ‘Hector Berlioz’; Allgemeine Musik-Zeitung (Berlin) Dec 11, 18, 25
76. RUNCIMAN (John F.) ‘After Berlioz’; Saturday Review v 96 no 2511 Dec 12 p 729-31 (More hard words.)
77. SEER (Paul) ‘Hector Berlioz’; Musical Standard v 20 no 519 Dec 12 p 369-70, port. (A brief, sympathetic summary of B’s life.)
78. TIERSOT (Julien) ‘Le centenaire de Berlioz’; Ménestrel 69A no 50 Dec 13 p 395 (+ Revue des Grands Concerts, by A. P., Amédée Boutarel and J. Jervais.)
79. STOCKMAYER (Karl von) Hector Berlioz. Zur hundertsten Wiederkehr seines Geburtstags ... (Post-Schrift zur Feier des 100 jähriges Geburtstags von Hector Berlioz (1803-1903) veranstaltet vom Verein zur Forderung der Kunst in Stuttgart am 14 Dez. 1903, im Festsaale der Liederhalle, Stuttgart, 1903) ... Frankfurt, Manskopf.
80. VALLETTA (Franchi-Verney) Count della ‘Berlioz’; Nuova Antologia 4 ser v 108 Dec 16 p 680-93, illus. (On B in Italy.)
81. ANON. (Review); Musical Standard v 20 no 520 Dec 19 p 384 (A review of Richard Strauss’ concert at the Queen’s Hall – the third of the London commemoration concerts. The audience was indifferent. There were “many dull minutes”, and the Rêverie et Caprice is considered uninspired.)
82. H., M. I. ‘Music’; Illustrated London News v 123 Dec 19 (An account of two concerts: the Stock Exchange concert for B’s centenary on Dec 9, and the third commemoration concert conducted by Strauss on Dec 11. Both were badly attended, but excellently played.)
83. Guide Musical 40,A no 51 Dec 20 (I. – “Le centenaire d’Hector Berlioz au Square Vintimille et au Cimetière Montmartre”, p 887-8; N. L. – “Le centenaire d’Hector Berlioz à Bruxelles”.)
84. POUGIN (Arthur) ‘Berlioz et l’Exposition Universelle de 1867’; Ménestrel 69A no 51 (3795) Dec 20 p 403-4 (Incl. letters from d’Ortigue and Mme. d’Agoult.)
85. Die Musik v 3 no 5 Dec (BERLIOZ NUMBER) (p 323-31: “Berlioz und seine ‘Architecturale Musik’”, by Amédée Boutarel; p 332-7: “Hector Berlioz der Mensch”, by Raimund Pissin; p 338-47: “Hector Berlioz als Dramatiker”, by Kurt Mey; p 348-57: “Berlioz und die Frauen”, by Gertrud Savič (continued in v 3 no 6 p 415-23); p 358-63: “Einige missverstandnisse betreffs Berlioz”, by Tom S. Wotton (read at celebrations in Grenoble Aug 1903, tr. German R. M. Breithaupt); p 366-72: “Berlioz und Cornelius”, by Edgar Istel; p 373-5: “Ist der ‘Lélio’ von Berlioz aufführbar?” by Richard Sternfeld; p 376-9: “Musikalien” (reviews of vocal scores of Resurrexit, Révolution Grecque, Méditation Religieuse, Cinq Mai, L’Impériale, various overtures, and pts. of Roméo et Juliette), by Rudolf Louis.)
86. RIAT (Georges) ‘Berlioz dans l’art et la caricature’; Monde Moderne v 18 no 112 Dec p 671-30, illus. (The prominent caricaturists, artists, sculptors and lithographers who took as their subject B or his work.)
87. Russkaya Muzuikal’naya Gazeta no 49 (BERLIOZ NUMBER)
88. B [Richard Batka?] ‘Richard Wagner über Wagner’; Kunstwart v 17 Dec 1 p 333-6 (p 329-32: ‘Berlioz’)
89. SMOLIAN (Arthur) ‘Berlioz’; Kunstwart Dec
90. BRUNEAU (Alfred) Musiques de Russie et musiciens de France. Paris, Bibliothèque Charpentier, 276 p. (p 192-4: “Le ‘Cycle Berlioz’” (Dec 9 1894).)
91. FEUILLET (Georges) L’œuvre intense de Hector Berlioz. Édition spéciale du centenaire. Grenoble, imp. Baratier et Jardelet, 2e ed., 20 p. (tells little about B, but a great deal about Feuillet.)
92. FISCHER (Georg) Musik in Hannover. Hannover und Leipzig, Hahn. (2nd ed. of Opern und Concerte im Hoftheater zu Hannover bis 1866. 1899.)
93. HERVEY (Arthur) French music in the XIXth century. London, Grant Richards, xvi, 272 p. (Chap. V: “Berlioz and the romantic movement”, p 84-107. Not hostile, but subscribes to the conventional view of B as an exaggerated character, good at orchestration.)
94. MORILLOT (Paul) Berlioz écrivain. Paris, Gautier Villar; Grenoble, Allier (Annales de l’Université de Grenoble v 15 no 2 p 369-416) (Full and excellent study of B as a writer.)
95. SAVIGNÉ (E.-J.) Hector Berlioz: historique des comités dauphinois et parisien, inauguration des statues à Paris et à La Côte-Saint-André. Vienne, Ogeret et Martin, 32 p., port.
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