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Berlioz-inspired works of art : Julio de Diego and Harvey Dunn

DIEGO, DUNN and Berlioz

Symphonie fantastique

This picture accompanied a large-size advert for the Farnsworth radios and Farnsworth phonograph-radios published in 1946, a copy of which is in our own collection. A hand-written note on a corner of the page indicates that it may have been inserted in the 17 January 1946 issue of the Life. The original painting by Julio de Diego was at the time of publication in the Capehart Collection.

This monochrome picture accompanied a full-page advert for the Steinway piano in the 7 January 1922 issue of The Literary Digest, a copy of which is in our collection. The original picture was painted by Harvey Dunn for the Steinway Collection (see below).

This coloured picture accompanied a similar advert for the Steinway piano in the January 1922 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, a copy of which is in our collection.

This reproduction, accompanied by an essay on Berlioz, appeared in a book entitled The Steinway Collection published in 1919, a copy of which is in our collection.

The essay on Berlioz

Passionate Rebel

Harriet Smithson was the inspiration for Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, and their relationship and marriage inspired Frank W Kenyon to write his novel Passionate Rebel, published in1972 by Dodd, Mead & Company, New York. Design of the book’s jacket, reproduced above, is by Biro.

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