{"id":13364,"date":"2024-06-04T13:41:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T11:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/berlioz-hector\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:54:23","slug":"berlioz-hector","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/en\/berlioz-hector\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlioz, Hector"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hector Berlioz<\/span><\/h1>

(1803 – 1869)<\/span><\/h3>
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New Edition of the Complete Works<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t

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Edited by the Berlioz Centenary Committee, London, in cooperation with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lissabon | General Editor: Hugh Macdonald<\/span><\/h2>
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The music of Hector Berlioz has undergone a noteworthy renaissance in the latter half of the 20th century, thanks to the work of British musicians and musicologists. The New Berlioz Edition made a significant contribution to this renaissance; the first complete edition of \u201eLes Troyens\u201c brought about a thorough re-evaluation of Berlioz as an opera composer. The rediscovery of the Messe solennelle of 1824 again drew international attention to Berlioz’s music.<\/p>\n

The New Berlioz Edition does full justice to the complex state of the sources surrounding many of the composer’s works, incorporating the latest research findings and discoveries. In each volume the works are generally arranged in chronological order. Libretti are presented in their original language. Each volume contains a detailed preface, a critical report and facsimiles. Rejected versions, drafts and other material appear in the appendices.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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\u201cA great genius can be given no more worthy testimonial to his honour than an accurate edition of his complete works.\u201d (Ludwig Ritter von K\u00f6chel, 1875)<\/span><\/h3>
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Ludwig von K\u00f6chel, the compiler of the famous catalogue of Mozart\u2018s works, may not have had Hector Berlioz in mind when he made this statement. But the gist of it is fully applicable to Berlioz, and to the New Berlioz Edition. While preparations were underway to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Berlioz\u2018s death in 1969, the Berlioz Centenary Committee resolved to do justice to K\u00f6chel\u2018s words by raising a lasting monument to the great French composer: a modern scholarly-critical edition of his complete musical works. This edition was to be \u201cnew\u201d in two respects. First, the initial \u201ccomplete\u201d Berlioz edition which was supervised by Charles Malhebe and Felix Weingartner from 1900 to 1907 remained unfinished. But more than that, the Berlioz Edition was also meant to be \u201cnew\u201d in its contents: it was to follow the latest scholarly guidelines for editions and to incorporate the most recent findings on the music. However, compared to the complete editions of Bach and Mozart, the New Berlioz Edition was relatively young. Equally young were the musicians and musicologists who prompted its publication and supervised its production, among them John Eliot Gardiner and Hugh Macdonald.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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High scholarly standards<\/span><\/h3>
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For the first time, the edition also presents unpublished material, rejected versions and preliminary drafts, offering insights into the genesis of each work included. Sketches of unfinished works are made available to scholars for the first time in a new critical edition. Finally, the corpus of finished works has been enriched in a completely unexpected manner with the addition of the \u201eMesse solennelle\u201c, which was rediscovered by Frans Moors in 1991. The high scholarly standards of the New Berlioz Edition have drawn unanimous praise from the international music community, and have achieved enormous success in concert halls. Hugh Macdonald\u2018s editions of indisputably Berlioz\u2019s main works \u201eLes Troyens\u201c, \u201eB\u00e9atrice et B\u00e9n\u00e9dict\u201c and \u201eBenvenuto Cellini\u201c have made these masterpieces available to the international opera public for the first time. The New Berlioz Edition presents the authentic texts of the works of Hector Berlioz in a form aimed at satisfying both scholarly and practical performance demands. Issued by the Berlioz Centenary Committee, London, in association with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon with Hugh Macdonald as Editor in chief.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Publication Schedule<\/span><\/h3>