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First printings. Volumes, each measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75" and bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spines. Books are new. Dust jacket of second volume has small closed tear at top edge of spine panel. Jackets are preserved in mylar cover. xxiv/647/xi/895 pages."This biography of composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) describes with unprecedented intimacy, affection, and respect the life of one of France's greatest artists. After long being regarded as an oddity and an eccentric figure, Berlioz is now being accepted into the ranks of the great composers. Based on a wealth of previously unpublished sources, and on a profound understanding of the humanity of his subject...these two volumes together comprise a monumental biographical achievement, sure to stand as the definitive Berlioz biography.In researching Berlioz's life, Cairns has had access to unpublished family papers, and in Volume I he is able to portray all the people close to Berlioz in his boyhood, and to evoke a… Read More