1904-1911

Introduction  
List of articles in chronological order  
    1904  
    1905  
    1906  
    1909  
    1910  
    1911  
List of articles grouped by topic

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Introduction

    Composer, writer on music, and librarian at the Paris Conservatoire, Julien Tiersot wrote extensively on Berlioz and his music. His contribution to Berlioz studies is discussed in general terms on a separate page on this site; the present page is devoted to the long series of articles on Berlioz, some 127 in all, which he published in Paris in the weekly journal Le Ménestrel between 1904 and 1911.

    The majority of these (117) were grouped under the general title of Berlioziana and appeared between 1904 and 1911, except for a two year gap in the series in 1907 and 1908. Each article had a subtitle which would indicate its specific subject matter. The main batch of Berlioziana of 1904-6 dealt in detail with virtually all of Berlioz’s known musical works, published and unpublished, complete and unfinished; it thus complemented the book published by Tiersot in 1904. The final group of Berlioziana articles between 1909 and 1911 reviewed at length Berlioz’s career as conductor and organiser of concerts. Outside the large Berlioziana series Tiersot contributed several more articles on Berlioz, 10 in all, published between 1909 and 1911.

    All the articles published by Tiersot in Le Ménestrel between 1904 and 1911 are listed below in two tables. The first table lists the articles in chronological order of their original publication, and the second table groups them together according to the topics they cover; for ease of reference the topics have been numbered. The reader will thus be able to see at a glance the range of subjects covered by Tiersot and the magnitude of the task he accomplished.

   The texts have been transcribed by us from the images of the original issues of the journal available on the website of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.  We have preserved the original spelling and syntax but corrected obvious type-setting errors. Two further points should be noted: (1) The typography of the originals is frequently inconsistent in its use of italics for the titles of musical works (for example the article Le Ménestrel of 17/9/1905 has the title ‘OUVERTURE DE WAVERLEY’ while the next one gives ‘OUVERTURES DES FRANCS-JUGES, DU ROI LEAR ET DU CARNAVAL ROMAIN’). In the tables below all italics have been removed for consistency, though the transcription of individual articles will attempt to reproduce the typography of the originals. (2) In the course of his articles Tiersot makes frequent use of Berlioz’s correspondence; where he cites particular passages from individual letters we have added references to the numbering of the composer’s correspondence in Correspondance Générale (abbreviated CG followed by the number of the letter).

I. List of Berlioziana and other articles in chronological order

1904

1905 (30 articles)

1906 (35 articles and 6 letters)

1909 (9 articles)

Articles outside the Berlioziana series:

1910 (12 articles)

Articles outside the Berlioziana series:

1911 (9 articles)

Articles outside the Berlioziana series:

II.List of Berlioziana and other articles grouped by topic

1. Au Musée Berlioz  (10 articles published between 3 January and 17 April 1904)

2. Lettres et documents inédits sur le Requiem de Berlioz  (4 articles published between 17 January and 7 February 1904)

3. Programmes, prologues et préfaces  (8 articles published between 26 June and 21 August 1904)

4. Compositions inédites et autographes de Berlioz  (11 articles published between 28 August 1904 and 1 January 1905)

5. Te Deum  (article published on 15 January 1905)

6. Benvenuto Cellini  (12 articles published between 5 February and 2 July 1905)

7. Notes additionelles sur les Troyens et Lelio ou le Retour à la vie  (article published on 9 July 1905)

8. La Symphonie Fantastique  (2 articles published on 16 and 23 July 1905)

9. Harold en Italie  (2 articles published 6 and 20 August 1905)

10. Roméo et Juliette  (article published on 27 August 1905)

11. Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale et l’Apothéose  (2 articles published on 3 and 10 September 1905)

12. [Ouvertures]  (3 articles on Overtures: Waverley, Les Francs-Juges, le Roi Lear, le Carnaval Romain, and le Corsaire, published between 17 September and 8 October 1905)

13. Œuvres diverses publiées du vivant de Berlioz  (8 articles published between 15 October 1905 and 28 January 1906)

14. Œuvres arrangées par Berlioz  (2 articles published on 4 and 11 February 1906)

15. Œuvres semi-inédites  (5 articles published between 18 February and 18 March 1906)

16. Œuvres inédites  (26 articles and/or open letters published between 8 April and 1 December 1906)

17. Œuvres de concours: Fugues, la Mort d’Orphée, Herminie, Cléopâtre et Sardanapale, et Chœur des Mages  (6 articles published between 26 August and 30 September 1906)

18. Le Premier Portrait de Berlioz  (2 articles published on 3 and 10 April 1909)

19. Berlioz directeur de concerts symphoniques  (16 articles published between 16 October 1909 and 2 April 1910)

20. Les Huits Scènes de Faust. Œuvre première de Berlioz  (3 articles published between 16 and 30 July 1910)

21. Berlioz. Bibliothécaire du Conservatoire  (4 articles published between 22 July and 12 August 1911)

22. Berlioz à l’Institut  (5 articles published between 19 August and 16 September 1911)

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