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Apr 17, 2024 · Hector Berlioz was a French composer, critic, and conductor of the Romantic period, known largely for his Symphonie fantastique (1830), the choral symphony Roméo et Juliette (1839), and the dramatic piece La Damnation de Faust (1846). His last years were marked by fame abroad and hostility at home.
Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer best known for the Symphonie fantastique, first performed in 1830, and for his Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem) of 1837, with its tremendous orchestral resources.
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 ...
Jan 11, 2018 · Louis-Hector Berlioz (b. 1803–d. 1869) was the most important French composer of the early to mid-19th century. He was born at La Côte-St-André, Isère, in southwestern France, and went to Paris to study medicine, his father’s profession, despite his determination to pursue a musical career.
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 day-to-day life. Although he was a musical child, he was not a composing or instrumental prodigy in the Mendelssohn mould. In any case his doctor father had him earmarked to continue in the family profession and had no intention of allowing his son to follow his artistic instincts.
Mar 8, 2019 · March 8, 20198:02 AM ET. Tom Huizenga. Enlarge this image. French composer Hector Berlioz died 150 years ago. He has been a lifelong favorite of the British author David Cairns, who wrote...
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