{"product_id":"berlioz-and-his-world-9780226837666","title":"Berlioz and His World","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of essays and short object lessons on the composer Hector Berlioz, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) has long been a difficult figure to place and interpret. Famously, in Richard Wagner's estimation, he hovered as a \"transient, marvelous exception,\" a composer woefully and willfully isolated. In the assessment of German composer Ferdinand Hiller, he was a fleeting comet who \"does not belong in our musical solar system,\" the likes of whom would never be seen again. For his contemporaries, as for later critics, Berlioz was simply too strange--and too noisy, too loud, too German, too literary, too cavalier with genre and form, and too difficult to analyze. He was, in many ways, a composer without a world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBerlioz and His World\u003c\/i\u003e takes a deep dive into the composer's complex legacy, tracing lines between his musical and literary output and the scientific, sociological, technological, and political influences that shaped him. Comprising nine essays covering key facets of Berlioz's contribution and six short \"object lessons\" meant as conversation starters, the book reveals Berlioz as a richly intersectional figure. His very difficulty, his tendency to straddle the worlds of composer, conductor, and critic, is revealed as a strength, inviting new lines of cross-disciplinary inquiry and a fresh look at his European and American reception.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancesca Brittan\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of music at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMusic and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, and Subjectivity, 1800-1930\u003c\/i\u003e. She serves as coeditor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Musicology\u003c\/i\u003e and general editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. \u003cb\u003eSarah Hibberd\u003c\/b\u003e is the Stanley Hugh Badock Chair of Music at the University of Bristol. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eFrench Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eMusic and the Sonorous Sublime in European Culture, 1680-1880\u003c\/i\u003e. She serves as coeditor of the \u003ci\u003eCambridge Opera Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and is on the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eMusic \u0026amp; Letters\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50869550055698,"sku":"9780226837666","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9f9969b7-3585-4ac5-b6f1-b92b8c995ad9.jpg?v=1737761353","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/berlioz-and-his-world-9780226837666","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}