1879-1887 Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz, 1819-1868, avec une notice biographique par Daniel Bernard; Les Grotesques de la Musique; Mémoires de Hector Berlioz comprenant ses voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie et en Angleterre, 1803-1865

Description

Early Edition, Leather Binding

Four works, uniformly bound in quarter calf bindings with marbled boards and end papers.

A lovely set of works concerning the life and letters of the French Romantic composer and conductor Louis-Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), including his work Les Grotesques de la Musique. These works are written in the original French.

This set includes a biographical sketch of Berlioz by Daniel Bernard.

The set comprises:

Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz, 1819-1868, avec une notice biographique par Daniel Bernard (1879, second revised edition), a collection of the letters of Hector Berlioz between 1819 and 1868, with a biographical sketch by Daniel Bernard. With a folding frontispiece.

Les Grotesques de la Musique (1880, new edition), Berlioz's amusing satirical work on the world of classical music and its performers.

Mémoires de Hector Berlioz comprenant ses voyages en Italie, en Allemagne, en Russie et en Angleterre, 1803-1865 (1887, third edition), the memoirs of Berlioz, including his travels in Italy, Germany, Russia and England.