Music Of The Great Composers --

Hector Berlioz-Part 11 A Brilliant Writer Berlioz was also a brilliant and witty critic and feuilletoniste. He was for many years music critic of the Journal des Debats, and he left some entertaining writing in his Grotesques de le musique, Voyage musical and Soirees de lOrchestre; but he always held in abhorrence his duties as a critic. I hate circumlocution, diplomacy, trimming and all half measures and concessions, he said. Why can I not remember th..