1. "The Real Berlioz"

2. La Côte-St.-André (1803-21)

3. The Latin Quarter and the Boulevards (1821-30)

4. The Emergence of a Style: Les Francs-Juges and Symphonie fantastique

5. A Sojourn--A Courtship--A Birth (18311-34)

6. Affairs of State (1834-40)

7. Portrait in 1839-40: Works of the Golden Decade

8. Vagabondage (1840-46)

9. Portrait in 1846: La Damnation de Faust

10. The Paris Problem (1847-52)

11. The Princess Carolyne--The Fair Ophelia (1852-59)

12. Portrait in 1859: Les Troyens

13. Parnassus (1860-63)

14. Marche funèbre (1864-69)

Abbreviations

Appendix A Compositions

Appendix B Prose Writings

Appendix C Concerts

Bibliography

Notes

List of Illustrations

Index of Compositions

General Index

D. Kern Holoman is Professor of Music at the University of California, Davis