This was therefore sooner than the start of the celebrated series Powerful and recent experience: it may have been a concert at the Conservatoire on 30 November 1827, at which an overture by Beethoven was played (it is not known which). Speech is powerless and weak, and yields to your magic”’. 79, hereafter CG for short), commenting on Thomas Moore and his understanding of music, he writes ‘It is when you have heard the sublime instrumental compositions of the eagle Beethoven that you can see how right the poet is in exclaiming: “O divine music, But in a letter to his sister Nancy dated 10 January 1828 ( Correspondance générale no. The letters of Berlioz before this time betray no special awareness of Beethoven. The precise point at which the revelationĬame is unclear, though it was around the end of 1827 and very early in 1828 (the Memoirs do not mention any precise occasion). In the distance, but one obscured by thick clouds’ ( Memoirs, chapter 14). Writing of the mid 1820s Berlioz later said ‘I had only read two symphonies of Beethoven and heard one andante, and he appeared to me like a sun The revelation of Shakespeare came a little later, with the performances in 1827 by the English actors at the Odéon theatre. Was closely followed by Spontini the year after, then Weber in 1824-5. The discovery of GluckĬame almost from the moment of Berlioz’s arrival in Paris in late 1821 Gluck Such an influence on his own, was nevertheless a relatively late comer inīerlioz’s formative period – the last in fact of the major musical influences It seems at first rather surprising that theĬomposer whom Berlioz came to regard as the greatest of all, and whose music had
Travers chants in the chapter entitled ‘Les Late in 1860 of Beethoven’s Appassionata sonata (op. Than anything he wrote, and consequently greater than anything ever produced ‘A work greater than his greatest symphonies, greater Their use without our explicit permission is illegal. Or reproduction of this material in any form, including Web page use, are Notice: The texts, photos, images and musical scores on all pages of this site areĬovered by UK Law and International Law. The champion of Beethoven: the music critic The Hector Berlioz Website: Berlioz and Beethoven
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