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Nov 10, 2023 · Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was the leading French composer of Romantic music, best known for his innovative Symphonie fantastique and use of large-scale orchestras and choruses in works like The Trojans opera.
Hector Berlioz: biography, music, writings, career in Paris, travels, articles by Berliozians, catalogue, bibliography, discography, concerts, reviews, news and more.
Hector Berlioz - Composer, Orchestrator, Innovator: The outstanding characteristics of Berlioz’s music—its dramatic expressiveness and variety—account for the feeling of attraction or repulsion that it produces in the listener. Its variety also means that devotees of one work may dislike others, as one finds lovers of Shakespeare who ...
Mar 8, 2019 · From NPR Classical. Deceptive Cadence. At 92, The Man Who Wrote The Book On Berlioz Resumes His Case. March 8, 20198:02 AM ET. Tom Huizenga. Enlarge this image. French composer Hector Berlioz...
Hector Berlioz: A Life. Nothing about Hector Berlioz’s music is remotely conventional. He went his own way, carving out each successive score with a bracing spontaneity and freedom that left most of his contemporaries in the shade.
Berlioz was able to put Wagner in the way of some musical journalism and thus began a fitful connection of 30 years between the two men whose influence on modern music still resembles a battle of ideals: Berlioz aiming at the creation of drama in and through music alone; Wagner at marriage of symphony with opera.
Dec 11, 2003 · Facebook. Flipboard. Email. It's the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer Hector Berlioz. NPR's Tom Huizenga reports on the composer's life and works, including the wildly emotional...
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