Berlioz.(Review)

Notes | March 1, 2001| | Copyright

Berlioz. Vol. 2, Servitude and Greatness, 1832-1869. By David Cairns. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. [xi, 395 p. ISBN 0-520-22200-8. $40.]

Hector Berlioz was misunderstood during his lifetime, but his career has been attentively examined by recent biographers. To the small circle of distinguished modern biographies in English, including those by Jacques Barzun, Hugh Macdonald, D. Kern Holoman, and Peter Bloom, must be added the newly completed, definitive work in two volumes by David Cairns. The second volume, continuing the account of the ...

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