Foreword. Talking about Berlioz / Peter Bloom -- Berlioz on Berlioz. Berlioz's Berlioz / Peter Gay -- Berlioz and before. Berlioz and early music / Catherine Massip ; Learning the past / David Charlton -- Issues of Berlioz's day and ours. Joseph d'Ortigue's "Autopsy" of Benvenuto Cellini / Sylvia L'Ecuyer ; Plots and politics : Berlioz's tales of sound and fury / Katherine Kolb ; Berlioz, Meyerbeer, and the place of Jewishness in criticism / Kerry Murphy ; Berlioz, Liszt, and the question of virtuosity / Cécile Reynaud ; Berlioz, Ophelia, and feminist hermeneutics / Heather Hadlock -- Berlioz viewed posthumously. Berlioz in 1900 : between fervor and fear / Jean-Michel Nectoux ; Berlioz in the fin-de-siècle press / Lesley Wright ; Berlioz forgeries / Richard Macnutt -- Afterword. Fourteen points about Berlioz and the public, or why there is still a Berlioz problem / Jacques Barzun.