Inge van Rij's book demonstrates how Berlioz used the sights and sounds of the orchestra to explore other worlds.

A Travers Chants is the collection of writings selected from his thirty-odd years of musical journalism. These essays cover a wide spectrum of intellectual inqu

Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.

Self-revelations of tormented great composer; musical life in Paris, Wagner and other contemporaries, musical opinions, much more. 11 plates.

This is the first complete translation into English of Berlioz's second collection of musical articles, originally published in 1859. The work is a uniquely Ber