Berlioz read Goethe's "Faust, Part One" in 1828, in Gérard de Nerval's translation; "this marvellous book fascinated me from the first", he recalled in his "Memoirs". "I could not put it down. I read it incessantly, at meals, in the theatre, in the street." He was so impressed that a suite entitled "Eight Scenes from Faust" became his Opus 1 (1829), though he later recalled all the copies of it he could find. He returned to the material in 1845, to make a larger work, with some additional text by Almire Gandonnière to Berlioz's specifications, that he first called a "concert opera", and as it expanded, finally a "dramatic legend".