This page presents a list of 19th and early 20th century articles, reports and other documents on this site in chronological order of publication. Unless otherwise stated all the titles have been scanned and reproduced from our own copies of the original publications. All rights of reproduction are reserved.

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Le Corsaire, 12 August 1823 Musical Polemic, by Hector Berlioz  (English translation by Michel Austin)
16 June 1832 An autograph letter of Berlioz
Gazette Musicale de Paris, 12, 19, 26 October 1834; 2 November 1834 Berlioz reviews Rossini’s Guillaume Tell  (in French)  
Transcribed and presented by Liliane Lascoux
Le Rénovateur, 2-3 November 1834 Berlioz reviews Berlioz  (English translation by Gene Halaburt)
Le Charivari, 6 December 1837 A review of the première of the Requiem  (in French)
Journal des Débats, 29 November 1839 Concert de M. Hector Berlioz. Roméo et Juliette, symphonie dramatique, by Jules Janin  (in French)
Le Voleur, 25 April 1841 Concerts du Conservatoire, a review by Berlioz  (in French)
Revue Pittoresque, Première Serie, Tome I, 1843 “Un Pensionnaire de Rome”, by Hector Berlioz  (in French)
The Musical Times, 1844–1944 Hector Berlioz in England, as reflected in the pages of The Musical Times 1844–1944
Compiled and annotated by Alan Merryweather
The Times, 5 August 1844 A concert in Paris – August 1844
L’Illustration, 25 January 1845 A concert in Paris – January 1845
The Viennese Press, 1845-1846: – Berlioz und die Wiener Presse 1845-1846  (original German)
Berlioz et la presse viennoise 1845-1846 (French translation by Michel Austin)
Berlioz and the Viennese Press 1845-1846 (English translation by Michel Austin)
The poet Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser, January 1846 A poem in honour of Berlioz  (in English and German)
15 and 20 February 1846 Berlioz’s concerts in Budapest – 1846
The Illustrated London News, 12 February 1848 A concert in London – February 1848
The Illustrated London News, 12 February 1848 An article on Berlioz – February 1848
The Illustrated London News, 8 July 1848 A concert in London – June 1848
ca. 13 May 1853 An autograph letter of Berlioz  (French text)
27 June and 2 July 1853 Benvenuto Cellini at the Opera House Covent Garden – 1853
Two contemporary reviews
3 December 1853 An autograph letter of Berlioz
Le Monde Illustré, 4 December 1858 Mémoires d’un Musicien (XI), by Hector Berlioz  (in French, with English introduction)
4 November 1863 The première of Les Troyens in 1863
Journal des Débats, 9 November 1863, pp. 1-2 Première of M. H. Berlioz’s Les Troyens, a review by Joseph d’Ortigue  (in French)  
Le Monde Illustré, 14 November 1863, p. 319 A review of the première of Les Troyens  (in French)
Le Monde Illustré, 14 November 1863, p. 310 A review of Act V of Les Troyens  (in French)
Aleksei Vasil’yevich Oreshnikov, 1868: – A concert in the Manège, Moscow – January 1868  (original Russian)
A concert in the Manège, Moscow – January 1868
(translated into English with an introduction and notes by Elena Dolenko and John Ahouse)
The Illustrated London News, 13 March 1869 Berlioz – Obituary 1869
Musical World, 13 March 1869 Hector Berlioz, by James W Davison
Théophile Gautier, 16 March 1869 In memoriam Hector Berlioz  (in French)
L’Univers Illustré, 20 March 1869 Hector Berlioz est mort  (in French)
Journal des Débats, 31 mars 1869 Ernest Reyer on Berlioz  (in French)
L’Illustration, March 1869 Berlioz – Obituary 1869  (in French)
The Illustrated London News, 3 April 1869 The late M. Berlioz
Revue et gazette musicale de Paris, March 1879 A letter by Stephen Heller on Berlioz  (in French)
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, February 1880 Hector Berlioz
The Atlantic Monthly, December 1881 Shakespeare and Berlioz
1872 and 1883 Deux textes d’Auguste Barbier : un portrait de Berlioz et une introduction à Benvenuto Cellini
(in French; introduction and commentary by Pierre-René Serna)
Le Monde Illustré, 22 March 1884 Subscription in 1884 for a monument to Berlioz
Michel Brenet, September and October 1886 Le premier opéra de Berlioz  (in French)
L’Univers Illustré, 16 October 1886 Imminent inauguration of Berlioz’s statue in Square Vintimille
L’Univers Illustré, 23 October 1886 Ernest Reyer’s speech at the inauguration of Berlioz’s statue on 17 October 1886  (in French) 
L’Illustration, 23 October 1886 The inauguration of Berlioz’s statue in Square Vintimille
La France Illustrée, 23 October 1886 The inauguration of Berlioz’s statue in Square Vintimille
Le Journal Illustré, 31 October 1886 The inauguration of Berlioz’s statue in Square Vintimille
Ernest Legouvé, 1886 Sixty Years of Recollections – Ernest Legouvé and Berlioz
Le Monde Illustré, 19 March 1887 The inauguration of Berlioz’s funeral monument in Montmartre
Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, 1888 Hector Berlioz and his Music
Ernest Reyer, 1889 La Critique Musicale  (in French)
La Lecture, 25 September 1890 Camille Saint-Saëns on Berlioz  (in French)
Report by the journalist Louis Bassette, October 1890 The inauguration of Berlioz’s statue in La Côte, September 1890
Adolphe Jullien, 1891 Hector Berlioz
Ernest Reyer, December 1893 Hector Berlioz: Personal Reminiscences
Sir Charles Hallé, Life and Letters of Sir Charles Hallé.
(1896)
Charles Hallé on Berlioz
Le Monde Illustré, 22 August 1903 Grenoble : Le Centenaire d’Hector Berlioz  (in French)
Le Ménestrel, 1904 “La Tabatière d’Habeneck”: Le témoignage de Julien Tiersot
(in French; introduction and commentary by Pierre-René Serna)
Comœdia, 14 December 1908 Home of Berlioz
Musica, No 66 March 1908 Ode to Berlioz, by Camille Saint-Saëns  (in French)
Le Petit Journal, 13 December 1910 At Berlioz’s Home in Paris
From Mendelssohn to Wagner.
Compiled by Henry Davison (1912)
James Davison and Berlioz  
Wilhelm Ganz, Memories of a Musician. (1913) Wilhelm Ganz on Berlioz  

Comœdia, 4 August 1922

A Berlioz museum
L’Illustration, 20 July 1935  La Maison de Berlioz à La Côte-Saint-André, by Julien Tiersot  (in French)
(Inauguration of the Berlioz Museum at La Côte)
France Illustration, 14 December 1946 The Centenary of La Damnation de Faust  (in French)
Radio Times, 6 March 1969 The centenary of Berlioz’s death on 8 March 1969
(commemorative programmes on the BBC)

 

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