The Art of Music and Other Essays

Berlioz's writings are a treasure-house of information on nineteenth-century musical life, performance practice, and taste.

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was equally prominent as composer and music critic. "A Travers Chants" is the collection of writings he himself selected from his years of musical journalism. This translation, presented in idiomatic English and annotated for twentieth-century readers, is illustrated with lithographs and drawings from Berlioz's lifetime.

"Berlioz the person-composer-writer is the sensitive child of his century and a most passionate voice of his time." —The Opera Quarterly

"Berlioz could hardly have been better served than by the translator of this English edition . . . It is an invaluable and long-overdue addition to the Berlioz literature in English. Elisabeth Csicsery-Rónay has given us an A travers chants for the millennium." —Music and Letters

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was equally prominent as composer and music critic. A Travers Chants is the collection of writings he himself selected from his thirty-odd years of musical journalism. This new translation, phrased in lively, idiomatic English and annotated for the twentieth-century reader, is illustrated with lithographs and drawings from Berlioz's lifetime.