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Hector Berlioz
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Harold En Italie - Viola And Piano By Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), edited by Hugh MacDonald, Paul Banks. Set of performance parts (includes separate pull-out viola part) for viola and piano. Urtext of the New Berlioz Edition. 90 pages. Published by Baerenreiter-Ausgaben (German import).
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It was a tremendous undertaking, and though an artistic success, the exertion nearly finished Berlioz, who was sent south by his physician. Resting on the shores of the Mediterranean, he afterwards gave concerts in Marseilles, Lyons, and Lille and then traveled to Vienna. He writes of this visit:
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Berlioz's Notes: Alone in the country on a summer's evening, the arti9st hears two distant herdsmen calling to each other in a franz des vaches (an alphorn melody of the Swiss Alps). Their pastoral duet, the rustle of wind in the trees, and the hope that his beloved might yet be his, all lull him into a reverie, but the idee fixe returns in his dreams. His heart palpitates and he experiences dread premonitions. The sun sets, there is thunder in the distance, then solitude and silence.
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Berlioz was the eldest of six children. One brother and one sister lived to be adults, and Berlioz was always very fond of them both. His father was a doctor. The family lived in the country, north west of Grenoble.
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Usually a slow movement would come next, but Berlioz put that off and inserted a lovely waltz. This could be thought of as a newfangled counterpart to the minuet movement common in Haydn's time. It ... provides an essential contrast, separating the dreamy first movement from the low-key slow movement.
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Berlioz's final literary discovery was Goethe; inspired by this poet, he composed Huit scènes de Faust in 1829, had the score published at his own expense, and sent it to Goethe. Goethe's musical adviser condemned it vociferously, and Goethe never replied to Berlioz.
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