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Eight Scenes from Faust (Full Score, hardback)
Berlioz, Hector
Berlioz Eight Scenes from Faust (Full Score, hardback)
Berlioz read Goethe's Faust, Part One in 1828, in Gérard de Nerval's translation; "this marvellous book fascinated me from the first", he recalled in his Memoirs. "I could not put it down. I read it incessantly, at meals, in the theatre, in the street." He was so impressed that a suite entitled Eight Scenes from Faust became his Opus 1 (1829), though he later recalled all the copies of it he could find. He returned to the material in 1845, to make the larger work Damnation of Faust.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_damnation_de_Faust)
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