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See also Berlioz sur la Toile (in French)

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 Hector 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. 

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 (France)

The Association Nationale Hector Berlioz has a site (in French) with a number of sections, including: history of the Association, its objectives, its publications, items for sale; and also pages on Berlioz biography, bibliography and discography.  Members receive a free copy of the Association’s regular publications Bulletin de Liaison and Lélio.

Bibliothèque nationale de France

In the Gallica section of the BNF you will find early editions of Berlioz’s books, libretti of some of his operas, and also many of his portraits. You can also read all the issues of the Journal des Débats politiques et littéraires, from 1814 to 1944. Berlioz collaborated with the journal form 1834 to 1863 and contributed over 400 articles to it.

Conservatoire de Paris 

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. 

Berlioz Society (London)

The Berlioz Society website gives information about the Society’s aims, office holders, and its various activities. Members of the Society receive a free copy of the Society’s tri-annual Bulletin. In addition, an annual weekend is organised which are open to the members and their guests. 

Other interesting sites 

The Facebook page of our Hector Berlioz Website provides a forum for discussions and exchange of news and views on and about Berlioz and his music. 

Completely Berlioz is a group on Facebook, organised by a dedicated Berliozian; it is similarly a forum for discussions and exchange of news.

Famous Composers provides an extensive list of composers together with a short biography of each of them.

For a substantial list of performances and recordings of Berlioz’s 3 operas and those of La Damnation de Faust see www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk 

The Picture Gallery section of the Leicestershire Villages website includes a collection of pictures of John Ella posted by Raymond E. O. Ella, who has conducted extensive research into family history of John Ella. See his article entitled John Ella, musician, born Leicester 1802, died London 1888: His Family History on our site. As you may know, John Ella was the founder and director of the Musical Union in London.  

See also Raymond E. O. Ella’s photostream at : http://www.flickr.com/photos/84098662@N02/

Spotlight: Berlioz Fanatics Unite is an opera blog that Fred Plotkin writes for WQXR, Americas oldest and largest classical music radio station. Do feel free to comment on the blog and exchange views with other berliozians.

www.paulhelm.com/Berlioz.htm and www.52composers.com are created by Paul Helm, an artist and printmaker. www.52composers.com includes portraits of a large number of composers, drawn by Mr Helm, with biographical information on each of them. Mr Helm has in addition published three different classical music 2012 calendars, with his own portraits of greatest composers, including Berlioz. See also on this site an article by Dieter Schoop on Berlioz’s Requiem.

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).

Another is an 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.

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’s works mainly by scientific publications and participation in various events dedicated to the composer.

Some interesting music-related sites 

Guide to Art Schools provides a comprehensive list of classical music resources, under three main headings: Significant Composers, Contributions to Modern Day Music, and Significant Musical Pieces.

http://www.forumklassika.ru/ The largest Russian-language forum for classical music.

http://www.classicalmusiclinks.ru An extensive Russian language site devoted to classical music, the sections include News, Previews, Features,  Interviews, Publications, Links.

Fantastique, le Journal des concerts (a weekly publication of Radio France).

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)

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).

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