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Symphonie fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un artiste … en cinq parties ( English: Fantastic Symphony: Episode in the Life of an Artist … in Five Sections) Op. 14, is a programmatic symphony written by Hector Berlioz in 1830. The first performance was at the Paris Conservatoire on 5 December 1830. Berlioz wrote semi-autobiographical ...
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Symphonie Fantastique is cast in five movements: the first a dream, the second a ball where the artist is haunted by the sight of his beloved. After a country scene, the fourth movement slips into nightmare: “Convinced that his love is spurned, the artist poisons himself with opium,” explained Berlioz. “The dose of narcotic plunges him ...
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, orchestral work by French composer Hector Berlioz, widely recognized as an early example of program music, that attempts to portray a sequence of opium dreams inspired by a failed love affair. The composition is also notable for its expanded orchestration, grander.
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Berlioz's spectacular Symphonie fantastique is truly fantastic, says Jane Jones. I think this really is a fantastic symphony – not only in name. This was the first of four symphonies that Berlioz composed and with it he firmly made a break from the norms established by Beethoven for the symphonic form.
Apr 25, 2024 · On May 3 & 4, conductor Thomas Wilkins and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra will present SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE with violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins. Title: Symphonie fantastique, op.14. Composer: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) Last time performed by the Rhode Island Philharmonic: Last performed February 23, 2019 with Ken-David Masur conducting.
Symphonie fantastique, H 48 (Berlioz, Hector) Movements/Sections Mov'ts/Sec's: 5 movements Composition Year 1830 ... Fantastic Symphony Name Translations
May 31, 2022 · Berlioz’s mastery of the macabre certainly had precedents—Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Beethoven’s “Ghost” Piano Trio, Schubert’s “Erlkönig,” and others have phantasmal moments—but nothing had been heard in music that quite prepared audiences for the awesome tolling bell in the “Songe d’une nuit du sabbat,” the startlingly realistic depiction of a head lopped off by a ...
