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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.
- Jacques Barzun
Apr 3, 2014 · Berlioz was often forced to rely on music criticism and other writing jobs to make ends meet, though a large financial gift from violinist Niccolò Paganini helped him write the choral...
Album Reviews. Guides. Hector Berlioz - The Music Critic. “It can take eight or nine attempts before I am rid of . an article for the Journal Des Débats,” Hector Berlioz once despaired, “even when the subject excites or amuses me. The first draft is often like a battlefield.”
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Mar 8, 2019 · Fans of Hector Berlioz — and record companies, it appears — need no excuse to celebrate the music of the pioneering French composer and quick-witted music critic. The sesquicentennial of ...
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Hector Berlioz as critic and author. The composer Hector Berlioz was a prolific writer who supported himself early in his career by writing musical criticism using a bold, vigorous style, at times imperious and sarcastic. [1] . Criticism was an activity "at which he excelled but which he abhorred". [2] .
He was accused at the time by the musicologist Winton Dean of being excessively partisan, and refusing to admit failings and unevenness in Berlioz's music; more recently he has been credited by the musicologist Nicholas Temperley with playing a major part in improving the climate of musical opinion towards Berlioz.
Nov 10, 2023 · Berlioz remains a divisive figure for critics, but his position amongst the great composers is assured since "his interest in new and varied modes of expression and his passionate sense of colour and drama embodied the Romantic ideal" (Sadie, 214).
