This personal site, a homage to Hector Berlioz, was created by Michel Austin and Monir Tayeb on 18 July 1997 as a one-page site; it subsequently grew to its current multi-page multi-section state. The document below charts the development of the site as a whole since its creation, and also lists contributions by our friends and visitors. In addition three separate pages chart the progress of particular sections of the site: Berlioz Music Scores, Berlioz: Predecessors and Contemporaries and Berlioz: feuilletons transcribed on this site

For a complete list of original contributions and other articles published on the site over the years see: 
Contemporary articles and events, Original contributions to this site and Bicentenary Special 

This page is also available in French  

1997-1999

18/07/1997

A one-page site mainly reporting a few forthcoming concerts, news, latest CD releases and recent publications

Major pages added subsequently: 

03/12/1997

Berlioz Photo Album (reconstructed on 23/04/1998, 29/07/1999 and 22/02/2002)

12/12/1997

Berlioz and Literature (reconstructed on 29/07/1999 and 23/02/2002)

21/04/1998

Berlioz’s Birthplace – La Côte Saint-André
(reconstructed on 24 and 29/07/1999 and 17/02/2002; many revisions and additions since)

19/01/1999

You and Berlioz’s Music

04/08/1999

La ville natale de Berlioz – La Côte Saint-André  (French version of Berlioz’s Birthplace – La Côte Saint-André)
(reconstructed on 17/02/2002; many revisions and additions since)

2000

01/01/2000

Berlioz Music Scores (see also the detailed history of this page) 

Between 
27/12/ 2000 &
30/06/2002
Creation of many separate pages and sections including : Recent News, Diary of Forthcoming Performances, Recent Publications, Recent Recordings, Review of Live Performances (completely reorganised on 25 December 2008), Berlioz Celebrations, and Notice Board (this last page has been discontinued)

24/06/2000

Berlioz, sa musique et vous (in French)

17/07/2000

Berlioz: Rapport sur l’Exposition de 1851 (in French)

19/10/2000

Berlioz in Paris (reorganised on 24/12/2000, enlarged on 26/06/2001, followed by several updates; a new version of this page on 15 June 2011)

20/10/2000

Berlioz à Paris (French version of Berlioz in Paris)

2001

05/07/2001

Site moved to www.hberlioz.com and reorganised under the name The Hector Berlioz Website

20/07/2001

Online History of the Site

15/09/2001

Partitions de Berlioz – Textes et Documents (in French)

15/09/2001

Berlioz Musical and Literary Works

09/10/2001 Berlioz Music Scores – Texts and Documents (English version of Partitions de Berlioz – Textes et Documents)
24/10/2001 Partitions de Berlioz – Extraits du Traité d’instrumentation et d’orchestration (in the original French)
02/11/2001 Berlioz Music Scores – Extracts from the Treatise on the Instrumentation and Orchestration 
(English version of  Partitions de Berlioz – Extraits du Traité d’instrumentation et d’orchestration)

2002

01/01/2002 Berlioz in London
01/01/2002 Berlioz: Report on the 1851 Exhibition (English translation of Berlioz: Rapport sur l’Exposition de 1851)
03/03/2002 Page d’accueil (French version of the Home Page)
03/03/2002 Historique du Site (French version of the Online History of the Site)
08/03/2002 Berlioz à Londres (French version of Berlioz in London)
24/05/2002 Berlioz Discography
15/09/2002 Berlioz Bibliography
11/12/2002 Berlioz: Predecessors and Contemporaries (see also the detailed history of this page)

2003

01/01/2003 Berlioz Bicentenary Special – Celebrating 2003 
(a collection of invited contributions by eminent musicologists, musicians and writers on Berlioz)
13/04/2003 Berlioz Libretti
18/05/2003 A comprehensive search facility [Google] was installed on the site
11/07/2003 Berlioz in Lille  
10/08/2003 Berlioz First Editions
14/09/2003 Berlioz Cartoons
07/12/2003 Berlioz in Europe
07/12/2003 Berlioz in Italy
07/12/2003 Berlioz in Russia
07/12/2003 Berlioz-inspired works of arts
07/12/2003 Berlioz Screen Saver

2004

29/02/2004 The première of Les Troyens in November 1863
15/04/2004 Berlioz in Meylan
08/05/2004 Berlioz: Étude critique des symphonies de Beethoven 
[Berlioz: A Critical Study of the Symphonies of Beethoven]
(original French text)
11/06/2004 Hector Berlioz’s Will  
01/08/2004 Berlioz Biography
19/09/2004 Ernest Legouvé and Berlioz 
03/10/2004 Berlioz: A Critical Study of the Symphonies of Beethoven  
(English translation by Michel Austin of Berlioz: Étude critique des symphonies de Beethoven)
01/11/2004 Berlioz and his music – self-borrowings

2005

01/01/2005 Berlioz Memorabilia
01/02/2005 Berlioz in Germany
01/02/2005 Berlioz in Germany – Brunswick 
01/04/2005 Berlioz in Russia – Riga
01/05/2005 Berlioz’s Writings: À Travers Chants (original French text)
01/06/2005 Berlioz in Germany – Cologne
01/07/2005 Berlioz’s Writings: Les Soirées de l’Orchestre (original French text)
01/08/2005 Berlioz: A Listing of his Musical Works
01/08/2005 Berlioz in Germany – Bonn
07/08/2005 Diary of forthcoming performances of Berlioz’s musicpurpose-built search function added
01/09/2005 Berlioz in Germany and Central Europe – Pesth
01/10/2005 Berlioz’s Writings: Les Grotesques de la Musique (original French text)
01/11/2005 A Bibliography of À Travers Chants (by Pepijn van Doesburg)
01/12/2005 Berlioz’s Writings: Memoirs (original French text)
11/12/2005 A Bibliography of Les Soirées de l’Orchestre (by Pepijn van Doesburg)
14/12/2005 A Bibliography of Les Grotesques de la Musique (by Pepijn van Doesburg)

2006

27/01/2006 A Bibliography of Memoirs (by Pepijn van Doesburg)
01/02/2006 Berlioz: Literary texts on CD with built-in search function
19/02/2006 Berlioz: Le Chef d’orchestre – théorie de son art [The Conductor  – Theory of his Art]
01/03/2006 Berlioz in Strasbourg
14/03/2006 Archive of performances of Berlioz’s music (with a purpose-built search function)
01/06/2006 Berlioz in Germany – Vienna
01/06/2006

Berlioz und die Wiener Presse (original German)
Berlioz et la presse viennoise
(French translation by Michel Austin)
Berlioz and the Viennese Press
(English translation by Michel Austin)

03/07/2006 Berlioz in Germany – Hechingen and Löwenberg
22/07/2006 Berlioz in Germany – Gotha
01/08/2006 Berlioz in Germany – Darmstadt
01/09/2006 Berlioz in Germany – Mannheim
01/09/2006 Berlioz in Germany – Stuttgart
01/10/2006 Berlioz in Germany – Frankfurt
01/11/2006 Berlioz in Germany – Hamburg
01/11/2006 Berlioz in Germany – Breslau
01/11/2006 Berlioz and France
01/12/2006 Berlioz in Germany – Hanover
01/12/2006 Berlioz in Germany – Bremen
11/12/2006 Berlioz in Bordeaux

2007

01/01/2007 Berlioz in Germany – Leipzig
01/02/2007

De Ontdekking van Berlioz’s ‘Messe Solennelle’ (by Werner Gladines – in Dutch)

01/02/2007 The Discovery of Berlioz’s ‘Messe Solennelle’ (by Werner Gladines)
(English translation by Michel Austin of De Ontdekking van Berlioz’s ‘Messe Solennelle’)
01/02/2007

La découverte de la Messe Solennelle’ de Berlioz (by Werner Gladines)
(French translation by Michel Austin of De Ontdekking van Berlioz’s ‘Messe Solennelle’

01/03/2007 Berlioz in Germany – Dresden
01/04/2007 Berlioz in Germany – Berlin
16/05/2007 Berlioz in Germany and Central Europe –  Prague
16/06/2007 Scores not included in the New Berlioz Edition (by Pierre-René Serna)
16/06/2007 Berlioz Music Scores – Marche d’Isly
16/06/2007 Berlioz Music Scores – Chant des Chérubins and Pater Noster
16/06/2007 Berlioz Music Scores – Valse chantée par le vent dans les cheminées d’un de mes châteaux en Espagne
16/06/2007 Installation of a search facility for Berlioz’s Writings
18/07/2007 Berlioz in Belgium – Brussels
11/08/2007 The Completion of the Duo in La Nonne sanglante (by Hugh Macdonald)
01/09/2007 Index of letters of Berlioz cited
15/10/2007 Berlioz in Germany – Baden-Baden
15/10/2007 Berlioz in Plombières-les-Bains
11/12/2007 Berlioz in Italy – reorganised and substantially enlarged

2008

01/01/2008 Statues of Berlioz
01/01/2008 Original contributions
01/01/2008 Berlioz: Contemporary Performances and Articles
01/02/2008 Berlioz in Germany – Weimar
01/03/2008 Berlioz in Switzerland
01/04/2008 Berlioz and Liszt
01/04/2008 Berlioz and Wagner
20/05/2008 Berlioz in Versailles
11/12/2008 Berlioz in Grenoble

2009

01/01/2009 Berlioz in London – New version (considerably enlarged)
01/01/2009 Berlioz in London: friends and acquaintances
01/03/2009 Hector Berlioz: Feuilletons – Journal des Débats 1834 - 1863
06/03/2009 Les Orages désirés – libretto by Christian Wasselin (an opera inspired by Berlioz’s youth)
20/03/2009 List of Berlioz’s feuilletons transcribed on this site (in French)
05/05/2009 Installation of a new and autonomous search engine for the whole site
15/07/2009 Rue Saint Vincent and Saint Vincent Cemetery (Paris)
01/10/2009 Berlioz in Meylan – New version
01/11/2009 Berlioz in Vienne (Isère) – New version

2010

01/01/2010 Project with the Hector Berlioz Museum and the long-term future of our website (announcement)
15/01/2010 Hector Berlioz: Mémoires d’un musicien – Le Monde Illustré 1858-1859
15/06/2010 Berlioz in Russia – New version (considerably enlarged)
15/06/2010 Berlioz and Russia: friends and acquaintances
15/06/2010 Octave Fouque: Berlioz en Russie (from Les Révolutionnaires de la Musique, Paris, 1882) (in French)
01/07/2010 H. Berlioz, Voyage en Russie (1847) Magasin des Demoiselles, XII, 1855-1856 
(in the original French, with introduction in French and English)
11/12/2010 Berlioz and Lyon
11/12/2010 Berlioz and Marseille
11/12/2010 Berlioz and Marseille: friends and acquaintances
11/12/2010 Auguste Morel: documents on his career (in French)

2011

01/01/2011 Berlioz and Germany: friends and acquaintances
15/02/2011 Berlioz and Lille – New version (enlarged)
15/06/2011 Berlioz in Paris, main page – New version (enlarged)
01/10/2011 Hector Berlioz: Feuilletons – Journal des Débats 1834 - 1863
(Transcription of all the feuilletons from 1849 to 1863 completed)
15/10/2011 Ernest Reyer and Berlioz: articles (1867-1896) (in French)
20/10/2011 Auguste Morel and Berlioz  (1876-1881) (in French)
15/11/2011 Paris and Berlioz: the revival (Performances of his music, 1869-1884)
15/11/2011 Paris and Berlioz: the revival (Articles and reviews of concerts, 1869-1884) (in French)
01/12/2011 Hector Berlioz: Feuilletons – Journal des Débats 1834 - 1863
(A dedicated search function added)
01/12/2011 Hector Berlioz: Mémoires d’un musicien – Le Monde Illustré 1858-1859
(Transcription of all the articles completed)

2012

01/01/2012 Berlioz in Germany – Leipzig  (enlarged)
01/01/2012 Berlioz in Leipzig – A Train Journey from Leipzig to Dresden in 1843
01/01/2012 Faust in Leipzig
05/02/2012 Site Statistics – New version

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