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Contents of this page:
Introduction
Works of art currently included in the collection
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Last update 3 May 2013
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Berlioz and his music inspired many contemporary artists, especially painters and cartoonists. Elsewhere on this site we have created a page which includes a selection of Berlioz cartoons. Here you will find a collection of paintings, lithographs and other works of art. In these genres, pride of place goes to the French artist Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), some of whose works inaugurated this collection.
The idea of paying homage to Berlioz through his paintings came to Fantin-Latour after attending a performance of Roméo et Juliette on 5 December 1875. His first project, which was realised first as a sketch, then a lithograph and finally a painting, was entitled L’Anniversaire. Souvenir du 5 décembre 1875 [The Anniversary. Memories of the 5th December 1875].
Later he created 14 lithographs specifically for the monumental biography of Berlioz that his distinguished friend Adolph Jullien published in 1888: Hector Berlioz, sa vie et ses œuvres (Paris, Librarie de l’art), with initially 30 copies of the print run. The subjects of these lithographs were various works of Berlioz. Fantin-Latour created other paintings and lithographs with Berlioz’s musical output as their subject.
Marc Chagall’s famous painting on the ceiling of the Opéra Garnier in Paris (known as Chagall’s Ceiling) was inspired by nine musical works: Mozart’s Magic Flute, Berlioz’s dramatic symphony Roméo et Juliette, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, Stravinsky’s Fire Bird, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Adam’s Giselle and Moussorgsky’s Boris Godounov. We have included on this page three images of the painting.
Also included in these pages are works by Marcella Acone, Michel Ayrton, Barbizet, Biro, Louis Boulanger, Eugène Delacroix, David Chirko, Julio de Diego, Henri Ding, Harvey Dunn, Haydn Greenway, Célestin Nanteuil, Alfred Roll, Sorrieu, G. Staal, and Maurice Utrillo, and images from a 1942 film by Christian-Jaque.
Works of art currently included in the collection:
Henri Fantin-Latour
Lithographs by other artists
Marc Chagall and Alfred Roll
Henry Ding’s sculpture
Michael Ayrton’s drawings
Maurice Utrillo’s paintings
Eugène Delacroix’s painting
Haydn Greenway’s paintings
Requiem (variations on the same theme)
Symphonie funèbre et triompale
A tribute to Sir Colin Davis NEW
Julio de Diego and Harvey Dunn
Young Berlioz and his career (1)
Young Berlioz and his career (2)
Young Berlioz and his career (3)
Young Berlioz : Drawings to mark Berlioz’s 207th birthday
Young Berlioz : Drawing to mark Berlioz’s 209th birthday
Paintings by David Chirko
Paintings by Albert Martin*
Pencil drawing by David Stamhuis
Berlioz, after Michael Leonard
Berlioz on book covers
Frank W Kenyon’s Passionate Rebel
David Cairns’ translation of the Mémoires (1974 edition)
David Cairns’ translation of the Mémoires (1990 edition)
The Hector Berlioz Website was created by Monir Tayeb and Michel Austin on 18
July 1997;
The
Berlioz-inspired works of art pages created on 7 December 2003; many additions made
since.
© 2003-2013 (unless otherwise stated) Monir Tayeb and Michel Austin. All rights of reproduction reserved.
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