Berlioz and His World

Francesca Brittan is associate professor of music at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of Music and Fantasy in the Age of Berlioz and coeditor of The Attentive Ear: Sound, Cognition, and Subjectivity, 1800–1930. She serves as coeditor of the Journal of Musicology and general editor of the series Recent Researches in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music for A-R Editions. Sarah Hibberd is the Stanley Hugh Badock Chair of Music at the University of Bristol. She is the author of French Grand Opera and the Historical Imagination and coeditor of Music and the Sonorous Sublime in European Culture, 1680–1880. She serves as coeditor of the Cambridge Opera Journal and is on the editorial board of Music & Letters.

• Permissions and CreditsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Berlioz and the Pantheon / Francesca Brittan and Sarah Hibberd  ESSAYS IThe Language of Prophecy in Les Troyens / Sarah Hibberd“Ossianic Sounds”: Berlioz on Memory / Carmel RazBerlioz contra Rousseau: Nature, Culture, and la musique descriptive / Alexandra Kieffer  OBJECT LESSONS IBerlioz’s Virgil / Ellen LockhartInevitable Antagonists: Berlioz and Donizetti / Roger ParkerHearing the Hostias, Rehearing the Requiem / Jennifer Walker  ESSAYS IIOrchestral Futurisms: Berlioz and Science Fiction / Francesca BrittanPassing the Baton: Conducting Masculinity in La damnation de Faust / Inge van RijOn Berlioz’s Subterranean Operations: Toward a Nineteenth-Century Media Logic / Shaena B. Weitz  OBJECT LESSONS IIEuphonian Sound and Fury, Signifying Something / Benjamin WaltonBerlioz: Conductor and One-Man Band / Jacek Blaszkiewicz“Je crois en vous” / Nathan Dougherty  ESSAYS IIIAmerican Episodes in the Life of the Artist / Jonathan KregorA Comet in the Musical Sky: Ferdinand Hiller on Hector Berlioz / Ralph P. Locke and Jürgen ThymIntimate Beauty and Sublime Grandeur: Sound and Space in the Music of Berlioz / Leon Botstein  IndexNotes on the Contributors

"In the volume, Brittan and Hibberd pursue an engaging and enticing mode of organization, one that will surely appeal to musicologists, Berlioz afficionados, and music enthusiasts alike. . . Berlioz and His World serves the admirable role of providing 'starting points for further scholarship, inclusive conversation, and a shared contemplation' of Berlioz’s 'rich histories and futures', a particularly timely goal when Berlioz, lacking a 'world' in his own age, has increasingly become a part of ours."