Contents

pp v-vi

Illustrations

pp vii-vii

Music Examples

pp viii-viii

Abbreviations

pp ix-x

Foreword: Talking about Berlioz

pp xi-xviii

Berlioz on Berlioz

pp 1-2

1 - Berlioz’s Berlioz

pp 3-16

Berlioz and Before

pp 17-18

2 - Berlioz and Early Music

pp 19-33

3 - Learning the Past

pp 34-56

Issues of Berlioz’s Day and Ours

pp 57-58

4 - Joseph d’Ortigue’s “Autopsy” of Benvenuto Cellini

pp 59-75

5 - Plots and Politics: Berlioz’s Tales of Sound and Fury

pp 76-89

6 - Berlioz, Meyerbeer, and the Place of Jewishness in Criticism

pp 90-104

7 - Berlioz, Liszt, and the Question of Virtuosity

pp 105-122

8 - Berlioz, Ophelia, and Feminist Hermeneutics

pp 123-134

Berlioz Viewed Posthumously

pp 135-136

9 - Berlioz in 1900: Between Fervor and Fear

pp 137-157

10 - Berlioz in the Fin-de-siècle Press

pp 158-172

11 - Berlioz Forgeries

pp 173-192

Afterword: Fourteen Points about Berlioz and the Public, or Why There Is Still a Berlioz Problem

pp 193-201

Contributors

pp 202-204

Index

pp 205-212

Berlioz: Past, Present, Future

pp 213-213