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Berlioz, who was welcomed with many humorous and friendly jests on his appearance among the other students, had just settled down to work, when he learned that his Ariel otherwise Marie Moke had forsaken him and had married Pleyel. In a wild state of frenzy he would go to Paris at once and seek revenge.
If people wish to institute a joust between French and German art, let it be a fair one, I repeat; let Wagner be matched with Berlioz, and Strauss with Debussy, and Mahler with Dukas or Magnard. Such were the conditions of the combat; and they were, whether intentionally or not, unfavourable to France.
First Appearance on the Operatic Stage. Excitement produced in Germany by her Singing. Her Independence of Character. Her Great Success in London. Description of her Voice and Person. Concerts in Taris. The Verdicts of the Great French Critics. Hector Berlioz on Alboni's Singing. She appears in Opera in Paris. Strange Indifference of the Audience quickly turned to Enthusiasm.
Her influence is seen in his later compositions, for he wrote for her a number of sonatas for harp and violin, as well as a good many harp solos. The musical pair went on many tours, always sharing the honours of the performances. Still more evident is the influence of woman upon music in the case of Hector Berlioz.
Later, when the two sages were obliviously engrossed in a heated battle as to whether Berlioz or Beethoven had exposited in their compositions the deeper intellect, Graham managed his escape. Clearly, his goal was to find his hostess again.
His overtures are unquestionably romantic, and as their histrionic and scenic titles indicate, partake of the nature of programme music. This brings us to Hector Berlioz, the famous French symphonist, the exponent par excellence of programme music, that is, music intended to illustrate a special story.
But she now dragged away from the great building and its lights, away from the voluptuous thunder of the grand piano, even at that moment outpouring the great joy of Weber's melody orchestrated by Berlioz: l'Invitation a la Valse, with its marvellous musical swing! "Waltzing!" cried the captain. "God help them! God help us all now! ... The Wind waltzes to-night, with the Sea for his partner!" ...
Berlioz was disheartened. Life had conquered him. It was not that he had lost any of his artistic mastery; on the contrary, his compositions became more and more finished; and nothing in his earlier work attained the pure beauty of some of the pages of L'Enfance du Christ (1850-4), or of Les Troyens (1855-63). But he was losing his power; and his intense feeling, his revolutionary ideas, and his inspiration (which in his youth had taken the place of the confidence he lacked) were failing him. He now lived on the past the Huit scènes de Faust held the germs of La Damnation de Faust ; since 1833, he had been thinking of Béatrice et Bénédict ; the ideas in Les Troyens were inspired by his childish worship of Virgil, and had been with him all his life. But with what difficulty he now finished his task! He had only taken seven months to write Roméo, and "on account of not being able to write the Requiem fast enough, he had adopted a kind of musical shorthand"; but he took seven or eight years to write Les Troyens, alternating between moods of enthusiasm and disgust, and feeling indifference and doubt about his work. He groped his way hesitatingly and unsteadily; he hardly understood what he was doing. He admired the more mediocre pages of his work: the scene of the Laocoon, the finale of the last act of the Les Troyens
The critics entirely neglected Berlioz's opinion, for, after opposing Meyerbeer for a long time, he admitted him among the gods and in his Traité d'Instrumentation awarded him the crown of immortality. Parenthetically, if there is a surprising page in the history of music it is the persistent affectation of classing Berlioz and Wagner together.
It is true that many who profess the principles of this music repudiate the model, and do not hide their disdain for Berlioz. That makes me doubt a little, I admit, the results of their efforts.
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