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BERLIOZ (HECTOR) Autograph letter signed ("H. Berlioz"), to Peter Cornelius ("Mon cher et excellent Cornelius"), in French, writing by chance to see whether he will be in Vienna, BERLIOZ CONDUCTS LA DAMNATION DE FAUST, [no place], 3 December 1866
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MUSIC - HECTOR BERLIOZ
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BERLIOZ TO CORNELIUS ON CONDUCTING HIS 'LEGENDE DRAMATIQUE' IN VIENNA: Late in his life and, despite misgivings that 'age, illness and his poor knowledge of German now impaired his conducting skill', Berlioz's performance in Vienna was a great success - 'lionized by Cornelius and Herbeck and fêted as he had been in 1845' (Grove New Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Volume 6, p.397.)
Peter Cornelius, writer, composer and translator, held Berlioz in particularly high esteem. In an article in the Berliner Allgemeine Musikialische Zeitung in 1854 he coined an expression adding Berlioz's name to that of Bach and Beethoven as one of the 'Three B's' at the summit of classical music. Some years later the conductor Von Bülow substituted the name of Berlioz with that of Brahms.





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