Evenings with the Orchestra
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- Evenings with the Orchestra
- Author
- Hector Berlioz
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place
- New York
- Year
- 1956
- Extent
- 376 pages
- Language
- English; translated and edited by Jacques Barzun
- Type
- Memoir / satire / orchestral life
SCOPE & CONTENT
Evenings with the Orchestra preserves Berlioz’s distinctive mixture of criticism, autobiography, satire and observation of nineteenth-century musical life. It offers direct evidence about orchestral practice, opera, concert institutions, performers and the critical culture in which Berlioz worked.
RESEARCH VALUE
Because Berlioz writes as both participant and polemicist, the book is exceptionally vivid but not detached. Its anecdotes and judgments are best compared with letters, contemporary press sources and modern documentary scholarship.
EDITION AND CONTENT
The curated record identifies the 1956 New York edition used as the principal bibliographic anchor, together with publisher, language and document type. Search aliases include shortened and variant forms of both title and author so the item remains discoverable even when the physical filename is abbreviated.
RESEARCH VALUE
Because Berlioz writes as both participant and polemicist, the book is exceptionally vivid but not detached. Its anecdotes and judgments are best compared with letters, contemporary press sources and modern documentary scholarship.
- Catalogue completeness
- 7 / 10 core bibliographic fields