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Cover to an early, possibly first edition, vocal score of Les Troyens

The French romantic composer Hector Berlioz produced significant musical and literary works. Berlioz composed mainly in the genres of opera, symphonies, choral pieces and songs. As well as these, Berlioz also produced several works that fit into hybrid genres, such as the "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette and Harold in Italy, a symphony with a large solo part for viola. Berlioz's compositions are listed both by genre and by the catalogue developed by the musicologist D. Kern Holoman. Opus numbers were assigned to compositions when they published. However, they were only given to a fraction of Berlioz's work and are not in chronological order. Berlioz's writings include memoirs, technical studies and music criticism.

Musical compositions by genre

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Many of Berlioz's works resist easy categorisation and assigning them to a genre is often impossible. The genres given below should be regarded as merely a guideline.

Orchestral works

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Symphonies

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Overtures

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Main article: Overtures by Hector Berlioz

Concertante work

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Choral and orchestral works

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Operas

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Oratorios

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Sacred works

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  • Messe solenelle (1824)
  • Resurrexit (1828)
  • Chant sacré (1829)
  • Quartetto e coro dei maggi (1832)
  • Le Cinq mai [fr], chant sur la mort de l’empereur Napoléon (1835)
  • Grande messe des morts (Requiem) (1837)
  • Prière du matin (1846)
  • Te Deum (1849)
  • Meditation religieuse (1849)
  • Hymne pour la consécration du nouveau tabernacle (1859)
  • Veni creator (?1861–68)
  • Tantum ergo (?1861–68)

Secular works

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Prix de Rome cantatas

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Main article: Prix de Rome cantatas (Berlioz)
  • La mort d’Orphée (1827)
  • Herminie (1828)
  • Cléopâtre (1829)
  • Sardanapale (1830; mostly lost)

Songs

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  • La dépit de la bergère (?1818–22)
  • Le maure jaloux (?1818–22)
  • Amitié reprends ton empire (?1818–22)
  • Pleure, pauvre Colette (?1818–22)
  • Canon libre à quinte (?1818–22)
  • Le montagnard exilé (?1822–23)
  • Toi qui l'aimas, verse des pleurs (?1822–23)
Photograph of Berlioz by Félix Nadar, January 1857
  • Nocturne (?1828)
  • Le pêcheur (?1828)
  • Le roi de Thulé (1828)
  • Neuf mélodies irlandaises (1829)
  • La captive (1832)
  • Je crois en vous (1834)
  • Chansonette (1835)
  • Les nuits d'été (1841)
  • La mort d'Ophélie (1842)
  • Fleurs des landes (1850)
  • Feuillets d'album (1850)

Chamber music

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  • Albumleaf for piano (1844)
  • Hymne pour l’élévation in D major for organ (1844)
  • Sérénade agreste à la Madone sur le thème des pifferari romains in E flat major for organ (1844)
  • Toccata in C major for organ (1844)

Arrangements

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Works by Holoman number

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This is a list of works by Holoman number, from the Catalogue of the works of Hector Berlioz (1987) by D. Kern Holoman, the 25th volume Bärenreiter's New Berlioz edition (1967–2006) [NBE]. The volume number that the work appears in the NBE is given. Many works exist in multiple versions for different forces. Opus numbers are also given for those works that have them.

Extant works

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H[1] Op. Title, genre Composed Premiere[2] Notes NBE
5 Fleure du Tage ?1817 Guitar accompaniment to music by Pollet 22b
7 Le dépit de la bergère, romance ?1818–22 15
8 Guitar accompaniment for romances ?1818–21 for various composers 22b
9 Le maure jaloux, romance ?1818–22 two versions, also entitled L’arabe jaloux 15
10 Amitié, reprends ton empire, romance et invocation ?1818–22 two versions 15
11 Pleure, pauvre Colette, romance ?1818–22 15
14 Canon libre à la quinte ?1818–22 15
15 Le montagnard exilé, chant élégiaque ?1822–23 15
16 Toi qui l’aimas, verse des pleurs, romance ?1822–23 15
20A Messe solennelle 1824 10 July 1825 withdrawn 1827; rediscovered 1992 23
20B Resurrexit 1824 26 May 1828 arranged from Messe solennelle; largely absorbed into Benvenuto Cellini, Grande messe des morts and Te Deum 12a
21 La révolution grecque, scène héroïque 1825–26 26 May 1828 21A for chorus and orchestra, 21B for chorus and military band 12a
22 Fugue 1826 Prix de Rome submission 6
23 3 Fragments of Les francs-juges, drame lyrique 1825–26 overture and movements 7 and 11 on 26 May Five complete movements extant 4
25 La mort d’Orphée, monologue et bacchanale 1827 Performance planned for 26 May 1828 but cancelled Prix de Rome cantata 6
26 1 Waverley, grande ouverture 1827–28 26 May 1828 20
29 Herminie, scène lyrique 1828 Prix de Rome cantata 6
31 Nocturne ?1825–30 22b
33 1 Huit scènes de Faust
  1. Chants de la fête de Pâques
  2. Paysans sous les tilleuls
  3. Concert de sylphes
  4. Écot de joyeux compagnons
  5. Chanson de Méphistophélès
  6. Le roi de Thulé
  7. Romance de Marguerite
  8. Sérénade de Méphistophélès
 1828–29 1 November 1829 withdrawn by Berlioz; later used in La damnation de Faust 5
33b 1/6 Le roi de Thulé, chanson gothique 1828 for soprano and piano 15
35 Fugue à trois sujets 1829 Prix de Rome submission 6
36 La mort de Cléopâtre, scène lyrique 1829 1 August 1829 Prix de Rome cantata 6
37 2 Le ballet des ombres, ronde nocturne 1828 withdrawn by Berlioz 14
38 2 Neuf mélodies Irlande 1829 H39–47
39 2/1 Le coucher du soleil, rêverie 1829 18 February 1830 15
40 2/2 Hélène, ballade 1829 15
41 2/3 Chant guerrier 1829 5 December 1830 14
42A 2/4 La belle voyageuse, ballade 1829 15
43 2/5 Chanson à boire 1829 14
44 2/6 Chant sacré 1829 18 February 1830 14
45 2/7 L’origine de la harpe, ballade 1829 15
46 2/8 Adieu Bessy, romance anglaise et française 1829 15
47 2/9 Elégie en prose 1829 15
48 14 Symphonie fantastique, épisode de la vie d’un artiste 1830 5 December 1830 16
51 Hymne des Marseillais 1830 Two versions 22b
51bis Chant du neuf Thermidor 1830 arrangement of music by Rouget de Lisle 22b
52 Ouverture pour la Tempête de Shakespeare 1830 7 November 1830 later incorporated into Lélio 7
53 4 Le roi Lear, grande ouverture 1831 22 December 1833 20
54 Intrata di Rob-Roy Macgregor 1831 14 April 1833 withdrawn 20
55 14bis Lélio, ou Le retour à la vie, monodrame lyrique 1831–32 9 December 1832 sequel to Symphonie fantastique 7
56b 18/1 Méditation religieuse 1831 part of Tristia H119; original version lost 12b
59 Quartetto e coro dei maggi 1832 possibly rev. of lost Marche religieuse des mages, 1828 12a
60 12 La captive, orientale 1832 30 December 1832 15
64 Sur les alpes quel délice (le chasseur de chamois) 1833 6 June 1833 Arrangement of music by Ferdinand Huber 22b
65 13/4 Le jeune pâtre breton 1833 22 December 1833 also part of Fleurs des landes 15
67 19/2 Les champs, romance 1834 rev. in Feuillets d’album (1850) 15
68 16 Harold en Italie 1834 23 November 1834 17
69 11 Sara la baigneuse, ballade 1834 9 November 1834 rev. 1850 from lost original 12a
70 Je crois en vous, romance 1834 used in Benvenuto Cellini 15
71 13/5 Le chant des bretons 1834 rev. as Fleurs des landes, no.5 15
73 Chansonette 1835 used for the Choeur de masques in Benvenuto Cellini 15
74 6 Le cinq mai, chant sur la mort de l’empereur Napoléon 1835 22 November 1835 refrain composed 1832 12a
75 5 Grande messe des morts (Requiem) 1837 5 December 1837 9
76 23 Benvenuto Cellini, opera semiseria 1836–38 10 September 1838 Libretto: L. de Wailly, A. Barbier and A. de Vigny 1
78 Aubade 1839 13
79 17 Roméo et Juliette, symphonie dramatique 1839 24 November 1839 18
80 15 Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale 1840 26 July 1840 19
81 7 Les nuits d'été 1840–41 originally for voice and piano, later orchestrated 15
82 Villanelle part of Les nuits d’été
83 Le spectre de la rose part of Les nuits d’été
84 Sur les lagunes, lamento part of Les nuits d’été
85 Absence part of Les nuits d’été
86 Au cimetière, clair de lune part of Les nuits d’été
87 L’ile inconnue part of Les nuits d’été
88 8 Rêverie et caprice, romance 1841 1 February 1842 from air composed for Benvenuto Cellini 21
89 Le Freyschütz 1841 7 June 1841 opera by Weber with dialogue composed to recitative 22b
90 L’invitation à la valse 1841 1 February 1842 orchestration of original by Weber 22b
92 18/2 La mort d’Ophélie 1842 part of Tristia H119 15
94 19/5 La belle Isabeau, conte pendant l’orage 1843 also part of Feuillets d’album H121 15
95 9 Le carnaval romain, ouverture caractéristique 1844 3 February 1844 on material from Benvenuto Cellini 20
97 20/2 Hymne à la France 1844 1 August 1844 part of Vox Populi H120 12b
98 Sérénade agreste à la Madone sur le thème des pifferari romains 1844 part of Trois morceaux for orgue-mélodium 21
99 Toccata 1844 part of Trois morceaux for orgue-mélodium 21
100 Hymne pour l’élévation 1844 part of Trois morceaux for orgue-mélodium 21
101 21 Le corsaire, ouverture 1844 19 January 1845 20
103 18/3 Marche funèbre pour la dernière scène d’Hamlet 1844 part of Tristia H119 12
104A 19/6 Le chasseur danois 1845 April 1846 also part of Feuillets d’album H121 15
105 Marche marocaine 1845 6 April 1845 arrangement of music by Léopold de Meyer 22b
107 19/1 Zaïde, boléro 1845 29 November 1845 also part of Feuillets d’album H121 15
109 Marche de Rákóczi 1846 15 February 1846 arrangement of traditional; used in La damnation de Faust 22b
110 19/3 Le Chant des chemins de fer, cantata 1846 14 June 1846 also part of Feuillets d’album H121 12b

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111 24 La damnation de Faust, légende dramatique 1845–46 6 December 1846 incorporating rev. versions of Huit scènes de Faust 8
112 19/4 Prière du matin 1846 also part of Feuillets d’album H121 14
113 13/3 Le trébuchet 1846 also part of Fleurs des landes 15
117 20/1 La menace des Francs, marche et choeur 1848 25 March 1851 part of Vox Populi H120 12b
118 22 Te Deum 1849 30 April 1855 10
119 18 Tristia
  1. Méditation religieuse
  2. La Mort d’Ophélie
  3. Marche funèbre pour la dernière scène d’Hamlet
 1831–44 collection of 3 previous works 12b
120 20 Vox Populi
  1. La Menace des Francs
  2. Hymne à la France
 1849 collection of 2 previous works 12b
121 19 Feuillets d’album
  1. Zaïde
  2. Les champs
  3. Le Chant des chemins de fer
  4. Prière du matin
  5. La belle Isabeau
  6. Le chasseur danois
 1850 collection of 6 previous works
124 13 Fleurs des landes
  1. Le Matin
  2. Petit Oiseau
  3. Le Trébuchet
  4. Le Jeune Pâtre breton
  5. Le Chant des Bretons
 1850 collection of five mélodies 15
129 26 L’impériale, cantata 1854 15 November 1855 12b
130 25 L'enfance du Christ, trilogie sacrée 1850–54 10 December 1854 11
133 Les Troyens, grand opera 1856–58 4 November 1863 libretto by Berlioz after Virgil's Aeneid 2
133B Marche Troyenne 1864 arr. from Act 1 of Les Troyens 21
134 Plaisir d’amour 1859 23 April 1859 arrangement of music by JPE Martini 22b
135 Hymne pour la consécration du nouveau tabernacle 1859 14
136 Erlkönig 1860 27 August 1860 orchestration of lieder by Schubert 22b
137 28 Le temple universel 1861 14
138 Béatrice et Bénédict, opéra comique 1860–62 9 August 1862 libretto by Berlioz after Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing 3
141 Veni creator, motet ?1861–68 14
142 Tantum ergo, motet ?1861–68 14
143 Invitation à louer Dieu ?1861–68 arrangement of music by François Couperin 22b

Lost works

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H Title, genre Composed Notes
1 Potpourri concertant sur des thèmes italiens c.1818
2-3 2 quintets c.1818
6 Estelle et Némorin, songs 1823
12 Le cheval arabe, cantata 1822–23
13 Canon à trois voix 1822–23
17 Estelle et Némorin, opera 1823
18 Le passage de la mer rouge, oratorio in Latin 1823
19 Beverley ou Le joueur, dramatic scene 1824
24 Fugue 1827 Prix de Rome submission
27 Marche religieuse des mages 1828
30 Variations for guitar on Mozart's Là ci darem la mano 1828
32 O salutaris 1828–29
34 Chanson de pirates 1829
49 Fugue 1830 Prix de Rome submission
50 La mort de Sardanapale 1830 Prix de Rome cantata
57 Choeur de toutes les voix 1831
58 Choeur d’anges pour les fêtes de Noël 1831
61 Le Dernier Jour du monde, oratorio 1831
63 La Chasse de Lützow 1831 arrangement of music by Weber
66 Romance de Marie Tudor 1833
72 Fête musicale funèbre à la mémoire des hommes illustres de la France 1835
102 Scène de la comédie 1844 One of three movements intended as incidental music for a production of Hamlet
108 Marche d’Isly 1845 arrangement of music by Léopold de Meyer
115 Chant du départ 1848 arrangement of music by Étienne Méhul
116 Mourons pour la patrie 1848 arrangement of music by Rouget de Lisle

Unfinished works

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  • H23C Le Cri de guerre du Brisgaw intermezzo in one act based on Les francs-juges (1833–34)
  • H61 Le Dernier Jour du monde oratorio (1831–33)
  • H72 Fête musicale funèbre à la mémoire des hommes illustres de la France (1835)
  • H77 Érigone intermède antique (1835–39)
  • H91 La Nonne sanglante opera (1841–47)

There were also several works that Berlioz planned to write mentioned in his memoirs and letters that he never wrote. These include the operas Les Noces d’or d’Obéron et de Titania, La Mort d’Hercule, Richard en Palestine, Robin-Hood, Atala, Les Noces des fées, Les Brigands, Hamlet, Méphistophélès, Roméo et Juliette, Cléopâtre, Salammbô, and an opera on the Thirty Years' War; settings of verses by Édouard Turquety and Abbé Arnaud, Canon of Poitiers; a Symphony in A Minor; and a vast symphonic poem.[3]

Writings

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Literary works

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  • Grand traité d'instrumentation et d'orchestration moderne, Treatise on Instrumentation (Paris, 1843; revised ed. 1855)
  • Voyage musical en Allemagne et en Italie, Musical journey in Germany and Italy (Paris, 1844)
  • Les soirées de l'orchestre, Evenings with the Orchestra (Paris, 1852); ed. L. Guichard (Paris, 1968)
  • Le chef d’orchestre: théorie de son art, The conductor: theory of his art (Paris, 1856)
  • Les grotesques de la musique, The grotesques of music (Paris 1859)
  • À travers champs, Cross-country (Paris, 1862); ed. L. Guichard (Paris, 1971)
  • Mémoires, Memoirs (Paris, 1870); ed. P. Citron (Paris, 1969, 2/1991)
  • Les musiciens et la musique, Musicians and music, ed. A. Hallays (Paris, 1903)
  • ed. G. Condé: Cauchemars et passions, Nightmares and passions (Paris, 1981)[1]: Writings 

Criticism

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Throughout his career Berlioz produced a large amount of music criticism, starting in 1823, writing articles in Le corsaire (1823–25), Le correspondant (1829–30), Berliner allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (1829), Revue européenne (1832), Europe littéraire (1833), Le rénovateur (1833–35),Gazette (later Revue et gazette) musicale (1834–61),Journal des débats (1834–63), Journal des artistes (1834), Monde dramatique (1835), Italie pittoresque (Paris, 1836), Chronique de Paris (1837–38),L’éclair (Brussels, 1842), L’émancipation (1843), L’artiste (1844), Monde illustré (1858–59)[1]: Writings 

Berlioz's complete music criticism is being collected and edited by l’Association Nationale Hector Berlioz as Hector Berlioz: Critique Musicale 1823–1863. The complete edition will comprise ten volumes:

  • Volume 1: 1823–1834, ed. by H. Robert Cohen and Yves Gérard (1996)
  • Volume 2: 1835–1836, ed. by Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï and Anne Bongrain (1998)
  • Volume 3: 1837–1838, ed. by Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï (2001)
  • Volume 4: 1839–1841, ed. by Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï (2003)
  • Volume 5: 1842–1844, ed. by Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï (2004)
  • Volume 6: 1845–1848, ed. by Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï (2008)
  • Volume 7: 1849–1851, ed. by Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï (2014)
  • Volume 8: 1852–1855, ed. by Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï (2016)
  • Volume 9: 1856–1859, ed. by Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï (2018)
  • Volume 10: 1860–1863, ed. by Anne Bongrain and Marie-Hélène Coudroy-Saghaï (2020)[4]

Correspondence

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Nearly four thousand of Berlioz's letters have been preserved

  • Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale I: 1803 – May 1832 [nos. 1–273], ed. by Pierre Citron (1972)
  • Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale II: June 1832 – September 1842 [nos. 274–775], ed. by Frédéric Robert (1975)
  • Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale III: September 1842 – 1850 [nos. 776–1367], ed. by Pierre Citron (1978)
  • Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale IV: 1851 – February 1855 [nos. 1368–1904], ed. by Pierre Citron, Yves Gérard and Hugh J. Macdonald (1983)
  • Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale V: March 1855 – August 1859 [nos. 1905–2395], ed. by Hugh J. Macdonald and François Lesure (1989)
  • Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale VI: September 1859 – 1863 [nos. 2396–2816], ed. by Hugh J. Macdonald and François Lesure (1995)
  • Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale VII: 1864–1869 [nos. 2817–3380], ed. by Hugh J. Macdonald (2001)
  • Hector Berlioz: Correspondance Générale VIII: Suppléments, ed. by Hugh J. Macdonald (2003)
  • Nouvelles lettres de Berlioz, de sa famille, de ses contemporains, ed. Peter Bloom, Joël-Marie Fauquet, Hugh J. Macdonald and Cécile Reynaud, Actes Sud/Palazzetto Bru Zane, May 2016[4]

References

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c Unless stated otherwise all information comes from the New Grove Music Dictionary article on Berlioz: Macdonald, Hugh (2001). "Berlioz, (Louis-)Hector". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.51424. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
  2. ^ "Berlioz: A Complete Listing of his Musical Works". The Hector Berlioz Website. Retrieved 1 June 2019.
  3. ^ Holoman, D. Kern (1987). Catalogue of the works of Hector Berlioz. Kassel: Bärenreiter. pp. 422–427. ISBN 3761804490.
  4. ^ a b "Berlioz: Musical and Literary Works". The Hector Berlioz Website. Retrieved 20 May 2019.

Sources

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Catalogues and bibliographies

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  • Holoman, D. Kern. Catalogue of the Works of Hector Berlioz. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1987. ISBN 3761804490
  • Hopkinson, Cecil. A Bibliography of the Musical and Literary Works of Hector Berlioz 1803–1869. Edinburgh: Bibliographical Society, 1951. OCLC 459406271
  • Kapp, Julius. Berlioz: eine Biographie. Berlin, 1917. OCLC 560548401
  • Langford, Jeffrey. Hector Berlioz: a Guide to Research. New York: Garland, 1989. OCLC 610576473
  • Müller-Reuter, Theodor. Lexikon der deutschen Konzertliteratur. New York: Da Capo Press, 1972. OCLC 74340834
  • Wright, Michael G. H. A Berlioz Bibliography. Farnborough: Saint Michael's Abbey Press, 1988 OCLC 679033614

Works collections (scores)

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  • H. Berlioz: Werke, ed. Charles Malherbe and Felix Weingartner. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, vols 1–20, 1900–10. OCLC 867999254
  • New Berlioz Edition, general ed. Hugh MacDonald. Kassel: Bärenreiter, vols 1–26, 1967–2006. OCLC 731235141
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