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This page presents a list of 19th and early 20th century articles, reports and other documents on this site in chronological order of publication. Berlioz’s own articles are presented elsewhere on the site:
Berlioz:
Feuilletons – Journal des Débats 1834 - 1863
Berlioz:
Voyage en Russie (1847) – Magasin des Demoiselles,
XII, 1855-1856
Berlioz:
Mémoires d’un musicien – Le Monde Illustré 1858-1859
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.
This page is also available in French
Last update: 1 June 2013 (3 articles)
A red asterisk (*) indicates an addition since the previous update.
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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) |
| Théophile Gautier, 1838 |
A
review of the première of Benvenuto Cellini (in
French) |
| Journal des Débats, 24 December 1838 |
Paganini et Berlioz, by Jules Janin (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) |
| Richard Wagner, 1841 |
An
article on Berlioz (English translation by Michel Austin) |
| Journal des Débats, 1 October 1842 | Le premier concert de Berlioz à Bruxelles – Septembre 1842 (in French) New* |
| 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 |
| Edmond Viel Le Ménestrel 5 January 1845 |
Théâtre
royal italien. Deuxième concert de M. Félicien David (in French)
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| 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 Times, 8 February 1848 | Concert of M. Hector Berlioz [1] |
| 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 |
| Atlas, 12 February 1848 | A First Impression of the Genius of Hector Berlioz, by Edward Holmes |
| The Times, 23 February 1848 | Toast in honour of Berlioz at a banquet in London |
| The Times, 30 June 1848 | Concert of M. Hector Berlioz [2] |
| The Illustrated London News, 8 July 1848 | A concert in London – June 1848 |
| The Times, 15 March 1852 | New Philharmonic Society |
| The Times, 25 March 1852 | Berlioz conducts the New Philharmonic Society |
Hans von Bülow, 1852
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Two articles
on Benvenuto Cellini (original text in German)
Two articles on Benvenuto Cellini
(English translation by Michel Austin)
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| 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 |
| L’Artiste, 6 December 1857 | Hector Berlioz, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
| Le Monde Illustré, 4 December 1858 | Mémoires d’un Musicien (XI), by Hector Berlioz (in French, with English introduction) |
| Le Monde Illustré, 30 April 1859 | Berlioz conducts l’Enfance du Christ |
| 4 November 1863 | The première of Les Troyens in 1863 |
| Le Ménestrel, 8 and 15 November 1863 | A review of the première of Les Troyens, by Auguste de Gasperini (in French) |
| Journal des Débats, 9 November 1863 | Première of M. H. Berlioz’s Les Troyens, a review by Joseph d’Ortigue |
| Le Monde Illustré, 14 November 1863 | A review of the première of Les Troyens (in French) |
| Le Monde Illustré, 14 November 1863 | A review of Act V of Les Troyens (in French) |
| 12 May 1865 | An autograph letter of Berlioz |
| Ernest Reyer and Berlioz (1867-1896) | Ernest Reyer and Berlioz (in French, Introduction in English) |
| 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) |
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| Le Petit Journal, 10 March 1869 | Mort d’Hector Berlioz (in French) |
| 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 March 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 |
| Paris and Berlioz: the revival, 1869-1884 | Articles and reviews of concerts (in French) |
| The Paris Conservatoire and Berlioz, 1869-1914 | Articles and reviews of concerts (in French) |
| Le Ménestrel, 27 March 1870 | Festival commémoratif d’Hector Berlioz, by Oscar Comettant (in French) |
| Journal des Débats, 31 March 1870 | Théatre de l’opéra : Festival en l’honneur d’Hector Berlioz, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
| The Concerts Colonne and Berlioz, 1873-1914 | Texts
and documents (1) (in French) Texts and documents (2) (in French) |
| Journal des Débats, 12 December 1875 | Concerts du Châtelet : Roméo et Juliette, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
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Journal des Débats, 1 March 1876 |
Société des concerts du Conservatoire : les deux premières parties de la Damnation de Faust, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
| Auguste Morel and Berlioz (1876-1881) | Auguste Morel and Berlioz (in French) |
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Journal des Débats, 13 March 1877 |
La Damnation de Faust, d’Hector Berlioz, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
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Journal des Débats, 30 March 1877 |
Concerts du Châtelet : Sixième exécution de la Damnation de Faust, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
| 30 May 1877 | An autograph letter of Édouard Alexandre to Édouard Colonne |
|
Charles Grandmougin, 1878 |
To
Hector Berlioz (in French)
Poem recited by M. Mounet-Sully, of the Comédie Française, on 6 January 1878, at a Concert at the Châtelet. |
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Journal des Débats, 30 March 1878 |
Le Requiem de Berlioz, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
| The Times, 4 June 1878 | Pasdeloup conducts Berlioz in London |
The Times, 31 October 1878 |
Promenade concerts |
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Journal des Débats, 16 February 1879 |
Roméo et Juliette à la Société des Concerts et au Châtelet, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
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Journal des Débats, 22 March 1879 |
Le Festival-Berlioz à l’Hippodrome, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
| Revue et gazette musicale de Paris, March 1879 | A letter by Stephen Heller on Berlioz (in French) |
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Journal des Débats, 12 December 1879 |
La Prise de Troie d’Hector Berlioz, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
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Journal des Débats, 26 December 1879 |
Concerts du Châtelet : Exécution de la Prise de Troie, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
| Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, February 1880 | Hector Berlioz |
The Times, 24 May 1880 |
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| Camées Artistiques, 8 July 1880 | Jules-Étienne Pasdeloup, by Félix Jahyer (in French) |
| The Concerts Lamoureux and Berlioz, 1881-1914 | Articles and reviews of concerts (in French) |
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Journal des Débats, 30 January 1881 |
L’Enfance du Christ. — La statue de Berlioz, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
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Journal des Débats, 13 December 1881 |
Concerts du Châtelet :
Lelio, ou le Retour à la vie — Lettres intimes
de Berlioz — Hector Berlioz (la Vie et le Combat, les Œuvres), by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
| The Atlantic Monthly, December 1881 | Shakespeare and Berlioz |
The Manchester Guardian, 13 January 1882 |
Charles Hallé conducts Berlioz’s Faust in Manchester |
| 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) |
| 1874, 1881, 1882 | Auguste Morel: documents on his career (in French) |
| Octave Fouque, 1882 | Berlioz in Russia (excerpt from Les Révolutionnaires de la Musique) (in French) |
| Le Monde Illustré, 22 March 1884 | Souscription de 1884 pour un monument à Berlioz (in French) |
| Adolphe Jullien, June 1884 and September 1890 | Jules Pasdeloup et les Concerts Populaires (in French) |
| Journal des Débats, 26 September 1886 | A propos de la représentation de Benvenuto Cellini à l’Opéra-Comique, par Ernest Reyer (in French) |
| 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 |
| Le Ménestrel, 17 October 1886 |
HECTOR BERLIOZ, by Oscar Comettant (in French) New* |
| 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 |
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Journal des Débats, 14 November 1886 |
Les Troyens à l’Opéra, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
| 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 |
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Journal des Débats, 22 April 1888 |
Concerts du Châtelet : la Damnation de Faust, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
| Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, 1888 | Hector Berlioz and his Music |
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Journal des Débats, 3 February 1889 |
Hector Berlioz, Sa vie et Ses Œuvres, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
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Journal des Débats, 14 April 1889 |
Concerts du
Châtelet : 48e audition de la Damnation de Faust. — Berlioz intime (nouvelle édition), by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
| Ernest Reyer, 1889 | La Critique Musicale (in French) |
| George Bernard Shaw, 1889, 1893 | Two performances of The Damnation of Faust in London |
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Journal des Débats, 8 June 1890 |
Théâtre de l’Odéon: Première représentation de Béatrice et Bénédict, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
| 20 July 1890 | An autograph letter of Édouard Colonne to the Mayor of La Côte Saint-André |
| Julien Tiersot, 1 September 1890 | An autograph letter of Julien Tiersot (in French, with English translation) |
| La Lecture, 25 September 1890 | Camille Saint-Saëns on Berlioz (in French) |
| Programme, 28 September 1890 | Le programme de l’Inauguration de la statue de Berlioz le 28 septembre 1890 (in French) |
| Julien Tiersot, 5 October 1890 |
Inauguration de la statue de Berlioz à La
Côte-Saint-André (in French) Le Ménestrel, 5 October 1890 |
|
Report by the journalist Louis Bassette 15 October 1890 |
The
inauguration of Berlioz’s statue in La Côte Grenoble-Revue, 15 October 1890 |
| Adolphe Jullien, 1890 | Les Troyens à Carlsruhe (in French) |
| c. 1891 | Document sur Édouard Colonne (in French) |
| Adolphe Jullien, 1891 | Hector Berlioz |
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Journal des Débats, 12 June 1892 |
Théâtre de l’Opéra-Comique : Les Troyens (reprise), by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
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Journal des Débats, 11 December 1892 |
Théâtre du Châtelet (Concerts Colonne) : L’Enfance du Christ, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
| Adolphe Jullien, August 1893 | Berlioz and the Critics (in French) |
| Ernest Reyer, December 1893 | Hector Berlioz: Personal Reminiscences |
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Journal des Débats, 8 December 1894 |
Concerts-Colonne : Le Cycle Berlioz. — Roméo et Juliette, by Ernest Reyer (in French) |
| Sir Charles Hallé, Life and Letters of Sir Charles Hallé. (1896) | Charles Hallé on Berlioz |
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| Le Monde Illustré, 14 March 1903 |
La Journée de Berlioz à Monaco (in French) |
| Le Ménestrel, 15 March 1903 |
Inauguration
du Monument Berlioz à Monte-Carlo – Discours par Jules Massenet (in French) |
| Art Dramatique et Musical au
XXe siècle, March 1903 |
La Damnation de Faust à Monaco (in French)
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| Julien Tiersot, 17 August
1903 |
Conférence
faite aux fêtes du Centenaire de Berlioz, à Grenoble (in French)
Le Livre d’Or du Centenaire d’Hector Berlioz (pages 189-195) |
| Felix Weingartner, 17 August
1903 |
An autograph
document by Felix Weingartner
(in German, with an English and French translation by Michel Austin) |
| Le Monde Illustré, 22 August 1903 | Grenoble : Le Centenaire d’Hector Berlioz |
| Julien Tiersot, 23 August
1903 |
Le Centenaire de Berlioz
à Grenoble (in French) Le Ménestrel, 23 August 1903 |
| Julien Tiersot, 30 August
1903 |
Le Centenaire de Berlioz
à La Côte-Saint-André (in French)
Le Ménestrel, 30 August 1903 |
| Charles Maclean, 1 September 1903 |
The Country
of Berlioz The Musical Times, 1 September 1903 |
| Julien Tiersot, 13 December 1903 |
Le
Centenaire de Berlioz [à Paris] (in French) Le Ménestrel, 13 December 1903 |
| Le Ménestrel, 1904 |
“La
Tabatière d’Habeneck”:
Le témoignage de Julien Tiersot (in French; introduction and commentary by Pierre-René Serna) |
| Julien Tiersot, 1904-1911 |
Berlioziana
series and other articles
(in French)
published in Le Ménestrel between 1904 and 1911 |
| Ernest Newman 1904, 1919 | Ernest Newman on Berlioz |
| Comœdia, 14 December 1908 | Home of Berlioz |
| Musica, No 66 March 1908 | Ode to Berlioz, by Camille Saint-Saëns (in French) |
| Journal des Débats, 23 August 1908 | Revue Musicale, by Adolphe Jullien (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 |
| Le Ménestrel, 1913 |
Benvenuto
Cellini – un compte-rendu par Arthur Pougin (in French) |
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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) |
| The Illustrated London News, 8 June 1957 | Les Troyens at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden New* |
| Radio Times, 6 March 1969 | The
centenary of Berlioz’s
death on 8 March 1969 (commemorative programmes on the BBC) |
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