Program Seven • Berlioz: The Composer as Writer by Berlioz, Paganini, Niccolò, Mendelssohn, pen 16 rgp 2024, Nuo (2024/2024), Fisher Center at Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, United States

Berlioz was one of the first composers to publish memoirs for posterity. Encompassing many of his earlier writings, especially those devoted to his travels, they are sometimes unreliable, yet also vivid, personal, and entertaining.