Editing Hector Berlioz (section)

===Prose===
{{main|Hector Berlioz as critic and author}}
Berlioz's literary output was considerable and mostly consists of music criticism. Some was collected and published in book form. His ''[[Treatise on Instrumentation]]'' (1844) began as a series of articles and remained a standard work on orchestration throughout the 19th century; when Richard Strauss was commissioned to revise it in 1905 he added new material but did not change Berlioz's original text.<ref>Lockspeiser, pp. 37–38</ref> The revised form remained widely used well into the 20th century; a new English translation was published in 1948.<ref>Lockspeiser, pp. 42 and 44</ref>

Other selections from Berlioz's press columns were published in ''Les Soirées de l'orchestre'' (Evenings with the Orchestra, 1852), ''Les Grotesques de la musique'' (1859) and ''À travers chants'' (Through Songs, 1862). His ''Mémoires'' were published posthumously in 1870. Macdonald comments that there are few facets of musical practice of the time untouched in Berlioz's ''[[feuilletons]]''. He professed to dislike writing his press pieces, and they undoubtedly took up time that he would have preferred to spend writing music. His excellence as a witty and perceptive critic may have worked to his disadvantage in another way: he became so well known to the French public in that capacity that his stature as a composer became correspondingly more difficult to establish.<ref name=grove/>