Legouve pere biography of nancy

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    Ernest Legouvé (), writer, poet, playwright, and a member of the Académie Française, was one of Berlioz’s lifelong friends, and remained true to the composer’s memory long after his death.

In he published in Paris a book entitled Soixante ans de souvenirs, later translated into English as Sixty Years of Recollections by Albert D. Vandam and published in London in In it Legouvé devoted a perceptive and sympathetic chapter to Berlioz, which gives a valuable and colourful portrait of the composer by a contemporary who knew him well over a period of more than 30 years.

It was written many years after the composer’s death and after the publication (in ) of Berlioz’s own Memoirs, which he knew well and refers to in several places. Legouvé’s account differs in places from Berlioz’s own, notably concerning his relations with women, a subject to which Leg