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BERLIOZ VOLUME 2: SERVITUDE AND GREATNESS
David
Cairns, Allen Lane
In this magnificent biography, the author describes the
genesis of the famous works of Berlioz’s maturity and
in particular his crowning masterpiece, The Trojans. Against
the backdrop of the composer’s professional life and
his struggle for artistic recognition, David Cairns traces
his personal struggles in the pursuit of love and financial
security, to his ultimate search for inner happiness.
David Cairns was chief music critic of The
Sunday Times and has been music critic and arts editor
of The Spectator and has written for the Evening
Standard, Financial Times and the New
Statesman. He has been a visiting fellow of
Merton College, Oxford and in 1991, in recognition of his
service to French Music he was made Officier de l’Ordre
des Arts et des Letters. He founded the Chelsea Opera
Group and is now conductor of the Thorington Players. David
Cairns lives in west London.
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