[5] "I was fair," wrote Berlioz to Bülow (unpublished letters, 1858). "A shock of reddish hair," he wrote in his Mémoires, I, 165. "Sandy-coloured hair," said Reyer. For the colour of Berlioz's hair I rely upon the evidence of Mme. Chapót, his niece.
[6] Joseph d'Ortigue, Le Balcon de l'Opéra, 1833.
[7] E. Legouvé, Soixante ans de souvenirs. Legouvé describes Berlioz here as he saw him for the first time.
[8] "A passable baritone," says Berlioz (Mémoires, I, 58). In 1830, in the streets of Paris, he sang "a bass part" (Mémoires, I, 156). During his first visit to Germany the Prince of Hechingen made him sing "the part of the violoncello" in one of his compositions (Mémoires, II, 32).
[9] There are two good portraits of Berlioz. One is a photograph by Pierre Petit, taken in 1863, which he sent to Mme. Estelle Fornier. It shows him leaning on his elbow, with his head bent, and his eyes fixed on the ground as if he were tired. The other is the photograph which he had reproduced in the first edition of his Mémoires, and which shows him leaning back, his hands in his pockets, his head upright, with an expression of energy in his face, and a fixed and stern look in his eyes.
[10] He would go on foot from Naples to Rome in a straight line over the mountains, and would walk at one stretch from Subiaco to Tivoli.
[11] This brought on several attacks of bronchitis and frequent sore throats, as well as the internal affection from which he died.
[12] "Music and love are the two wings of the soul," he wrote in his Mémoires.
[13] Mémoires, I, 11.
[14] Julien Tiersot, Hector Berlioz et la société de son temps, 1903, Hachette.