
"Berlioz the person-composer-writer is the sensitive child of hiscentury and a most passionate voice of his time." -- The OperaQuarterly
"Berlioz could hardly have been better served thanby the translator of this English edition... It is an invaluable and long-overdueaddition to the Berlioz literature in English. Elisabeth Csicsery-R nay has givenus an A travers chants for the millennium." -- Music andLetters
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was equally prominent ascomposer and music critic. A Travers Chants is the collection of writings he himselfselected 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. Less