THE LIFE OF
HECTOR BERLIOZ
AS WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
IN HIS
LETTERS AND MEMOIRS

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY
KATHARINE F BOULT

LONDON
J. M. DENT & CO.
NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
1903

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
[I.][La Côte Saint-André][1]
[II.][Estelle][5]
[III.][Music and Anatomy][10]
[IV.][Paris][16]
[V.][Cherubini][22]
[VI.][My Father’s Decision][27]
[VII.][Privation][31]
[VIII.][Failure][37]
[IX.][A Night at the Opera][42]
[X.][Weber][46]
[XI.][Henriette][50]
[XII.][My First Concert][56]
[XIII.][An Academy Examination][64]
[XIV.][Faust—Cleopatra][71]
[XV.][A New Love][80]
[XVI.][Liszt][91]
[XVII.][A Wild Interlude][96]
[XVIII.][Italian Music][108]
[XIX.][In the Mountains][113]
[XX.][Naples—Home][120]
[XXI.][Marriage][128]
[XXII.][Newspaper Bondage][135]
[XXIII.][The Requiem][143]
[XXIV.][Friends in Need][152]
[XXV.][Brussels—Paris Opera Concert][159]
[XXVI.][Hechingen—Weimar][167]
[XXVII.][Mendelssohn—Wagner][177]
[XXVIII.][A Colossal Concert][187]
[XXIX.][The Rakoczy March][193]
[XXX.][Paris—Russia—London][200]
[XXXI.][My Father’s Death—Meylan][211]
[XXXII.][Poor Ophelia][216]
[XXXIII.][Dead Sea Fruit][222]
[XXXIV.][Gathering Twilight][230]
[XXXV.][The Trojans][241]
[XXXVI.][Estelle Once More][251]
[XXXVII.][The Afterglow][272]
[XXXVIII.][Darkness and Light][289]