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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.
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Hector Berlioz, (born Dec. 11, 1803, La Côte-Saint-André, France—died March 8, 1869, Paris), French composer. He studied guitar in his early years and later studied music at the Paris Conservatoire, against his parents’ wishes. His first great score was the stormy Symphonie fantastique (1830), which became a landmark of the Romantic era.
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...
If by the time of her death Smithson was a largely forgotten figure, Berlioz had established a reputation as a renegade genius among his composing peers, including the two most prominent members of the “new music’”group, Liszt and Wagner, and the fast emerging Russian Nationalist school.
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 ...
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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