Berlioz and Paganini at
the Paris Conservatoire, by Adolphe Yvon – 1884The Hector Berlioz Website
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Berlioz and Paganini at
the Paris Conservatoire, by Adolphe Yvon – 1884
This engraving of a painting by Adolphe Yvon (1817-1893), published in Le Monde Illustré, 22 March 1884, represents a scene at the Paris Conservatoire after a concert given by Berlioz in December 1838.
The caption reads:
16 December 1838 at the Conservatoire. — Paganini at Berlioz’s
feet, after the performance of the « Symphonie
fantastique ».
Sketch of painting by M. Yvon. — Engraving by M. LEPÈRE,
after the photograph by M. PIERRE
PETIT. — (See the article, page
182.)
The original painting entitled ‘Hommage de Paganini à Berlioz lors du concert du 16 décembre 1838’, is in the Médiathèque, Cité de la musique, Paris.
You may read elsewhere on this site the article
on page 182 of Le Monde Illustré in which the story behind the
painting has been related.
The above engraving and its related article have been reproduced on this
site from our own copy of Le Monde Illustré, 22 March 1884.
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