Prix de Rome Works (Full Score, hardback)

Berlioz Prix de Rome Works (Full Score, hardback)

Hector Berlioz was already fascinated by music in his early years but heeding his physician father’s wishes, he went to  Paris in 1821 to study medicine.  Two years later he abandoned his studies after having spent more time at the Paris-Opéra enthralled by the operas of Christoph Willibald Gluck than at medicine school.  Lucky for us, he then studied music at the Paris Conservatoire and became a composer, writing works which epitomised 19th century Romanticism with their innovativeness and musical expression.

The music of Hector Berlioz underwent a noteworthy renaissance in the latter half of the 20th century, thanks to the work of British musicians and musicologists.  Bärenreiter’s  “New Berlioz Edition” made a significant contribution to this renaissance; the first complete edition of „Les Troyens“ brought about a thorough re-evaluation of Berlioz as an opera composer.  The rediscovery of the Messe solennelle in the church of St Carlus Borromaeus in Antwerp in 1991 again drew international attention to Berlioz's music.

In this volume we present the six works for the competitions 1826-1830.

- New Berlioz Edition Vol.6