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Musée Hector
Berlioz
Festival Berlioz at La Côte Saint-André
Association nationale Hector Berlioz at La Côte
Saint-André
The Berlioz Society at London
The New Berlioz Edition
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Conservatoire de
Paris
The Jacques Barzun Centennial Website
Other interesting Berlioz sites
Berlioz: predecessors and contemporaries
Some interesting
music-related sites*
(Caution: the addresses given may be changed from time to time by the website organisers.)
Last update: 12 February 2008
A red asterisk (*) in front of an item indicates an addition or change since the previous update.
Musée
Hector Berlioz at La Côte Saint-André
The house in which Berlioz was born is now a museum and its website can be reached at: Musée Berlioz. Here you will find some useful information about the museum, its history, its permanent exhibits, and the temporary exhibitions which it stages from time to time. The site also has a few pictures of the museum and its collection. The museum, which was closed for refurbishment, reopened to the public on 29 June 2003.
See also our La Côte Saint-André pages for original photographs of the Berlioz family home and the Hector Berlioz Museum .
Festival
Berlioz at La Côte Saint-André
The annual Festival Berlioz has a beautiful site which gives detailed information on the concerts, reservations, accommodation and directions as to how to get there. The site is in three languages: French, English and German.
Association
nationale Hector Berlioz at La Côte Saint-André
The Association Nationale Hector Berlioz in France has a site (in French) with a number of sections, including: Berlioz biography, Berlioz contemporaries, bibliography, discography, Berlioz 2003, and an extensive ‘Avant programme’ (concert listing).
The Berlioz Society website gives information about the Society’s aims, office holders, and its various activities. There is also a contact address to apply for membership.
The site of the New Berlioz Edition gives comprehensive information on the history of the Edition, the NBE Trust, funding, a list of NBE volumes, the publisher and the NBE contacts. The site has also a section on events and links. We have provided our own detailed listing of the NBE volumes elsewhere on this site at: Berlioz: Musical and Literary Works.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
The Département de la Musique of the BNF have digitised hundreds of the portraits in their collection and placed them on the Net, including 59 of Berlioz’s. You will also find here the early editions of the libretto of some of Berlioz’s works. Click here for the BNF’s dedicated site for documents and portraits.
The present day Conservatoire de Paris (or Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris) is located within a few meters from the Cité de la Musique in the Parc de la Villette. The Conservatoire’s Library/Médiathèque is named after Berlioz. To see the pictures of the Paris Conservatoire that Berlioz knew see the Conservatoire section in our Berlioz in Paris pages.
The
Jacques Barzun Centennial Website
As many of you may know, Professor Jacques Barzun, one of the foremost champions of Berlioz, will be celebrating his 100th birthday on 30 November 2007.
To mark this occasion, our friend Leo Wong has created The Jacques Barzun Centennial website at http://barzuncentennial.murphywong.net/, to gather the recollections and tributes of persons – some who are old friends, some who have never met him – whose lives have been positively affected by Professor Barzun. Please enjoy the site, which grows daily, and if you’d like to contribute, please send an e-mail to Leo Wong, whose address can be found on the site.
Matthew B. Tepper’s Hector Berlioz site includes, among other interesting features, the text of his Master’s degree thesis, "Tempo, Style, and Options in Modern Performances of Hector Berlioz’ Grande Messe des morts, Op. 5" (University of Minnesota, 1983).
Leo Wong, an admirer of Berlioz, has created Mandalas for Berlioz – a very imaginative and original dedication.
Another interesting site is a message board in Australia. A second Australian site includes a section on Berlioz and the scores of several of his vocal works. There is also a Berlioz page which is part of a US university and contains some information on the composer and a few of his compositions. The site was last updated in 1996.
There is a page on Berlioz in French where you will find a biography and a few pictures of Berlioz. Another page offers a free download of a rare recording of Le chant des chemins de fer (in MP3 and Real Audio formats).
A site based in the Netherlands offers a rare opportunity to read a few reviews of performances of Berlioz’s music in that country in the 19th century. This site is in Dutch.
Completely Berlioz is a site with various sections, including a message board.
"Un temps libre pour l’art" is an interesting site devoted in part to biographies of a few great composers, in three languages – French, Spanish, and English. It has a nicely designed section on Berlioz.
Berlioz2003 le bicentenaire is a French site created "to celebrate Berlioz’s bicentenary year". The site includes, among others, information on scheduled radio and television broadcasts of Berlioz’s music in France, concerts and festivals; and a new section on Berlioz’s letters to Madame Estelle Fornier.
Hector Berlioz, Composer is a children’s website from the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, with a brief biography and a link to an audio sample of Carnaval Romain Overture.
Berlioz on Canadian radio, is an imaginative project devised and organised by David Winn, a volunteer classical music host and producer at CFUV 101.9 FM, Victoria’s public radio station.
The Infography about Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869) lists sources recommended by a professor whose research specialty is Hector Berlioz.
The Berlioz Song Site contains voice and piano scores for 25 songs.
Berlioz:
predecessors and contemporaries
Liszt-Nachrichten and Franz-Liszt-Gesellschaft E. V. Weimar [Franz Liszt Society] in Weimar, Germany (in German).
The International Carl Maria von Weber Society, in German with English summary.
All About Ludwig van Beethoven is a comprehensive site covering Beethoven’s life and music. It also features various interesting sections, including documents, pictures, Beethoven-inspired fine arts, playlist advice, CDs, books and free music sheet.
Ludwig van Beethoven is an extensive site. There is also a section which provides links to many sites on other composers.
Beethoven, the immortal is another site devoted to the life and works of Beethoven.
The Meyerbeer Fan Club, includes also a page on Halévy.
Association George Onslow, the official website of an association which aims to get George Onslow known better through his life and his works. It promotes Onslow’ works mainly by scientific publications and participation in various events dedicated to the composer.
Some
interesting music-related sites
http://www.musicologie.org/. Created by Dr Jean-Marc Warszawski, a musician and musicologist, this site is a place for documentation on music and musicology, for reflection, for history and for theory. It publishes articles, original works and documents. It offers a significant collection of biographies and encyclopaedic articles related to music. See also on this site: http://www.musicologie.org/Biographies/berlioz.html.
http://louisjullien.site.voila.fr. This interesting site, devoted to Louis-Antoine Jullien, is by M. Michel Faul, author of the book Louis Jullien : musique, spectacle et folie au XIXe siècle (Éditions Atlantica, 2006).
www.rmsr.ch/cadres.htm, the site of the Revue Musicale de Suisse Romande, a quarterly journal published in Switzerland (in French)
The Orchestra of the Bournemouth Philharmonic Society is a full amateur symphony orchestra, with a wide-ranging repertoire which includes Berlioz’s music.
Classical Composers Database is a rich resource for, among others, introductions to nearly 200 composers.
A site in France, entitled Music in Words, has as its aim "to help those who wish to live a new experience with classical music, or to discover a work they are not acquainted with, thanks to a narrative text close to the composer’s personal work and to the historical background when appropriate". The site exists in both English (Music in Words) and French (Musiques sous titrées).
http://www.8notes.com/directory/ is also another extensive on-line database with links to a large number of music sites, including those related to classical music and composers.
Charles K Moss Piano Studio authored and organized by Charles K Moss and Carolina Classical Connection represent a wide range of musical topics and classical music styles through ages, from the early music soloists to the music of our time, including a section on romantic era.
The Classical Buffet is the new classical music home for Cheryl Campbell, former Classical Music Guide at About.com.
Arts in Residence is the website of the organisation Arts in Residence run by Terry Barfoot, a Senior Lecturer in Music at South Downs College, England and a well known musical personality.
MacMusic An interesting site for audio, music, midi, on Macintosh: Daily News, forums, directory with over 2500 links, exclusive sharewares, resources and much more.
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