TY - BOOK AU - Berlioz,Hector TI - Les soirées de l'orchestre AV - ML PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Music -- History and criticism KW - Music -- France -- Paris -- History and criticism N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Soir%C3%A9es_de_l%27orchestre; Release date is 2010-04-19; Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This ebook was produced from scanned images at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Les soirées de l'orchestre" by Hector Berlioz is a collection of stories published in 1852. In this satirical work, Berlioz imagines orchestra musicians so bored playing mediocre operas that they tell each other tales during performances. When masterpieces by Mozart, Beethoven, or Weber are played, silence reigns—no stories emerge. Through humor and sharp wit, Berlioz critiques the musical world of his time while offering glimpses into nineteenth-century concert life, theatrical intrigue, and his own artistic passions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32056 ER -