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    Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer and conductor. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie...
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    The French romantic composer Hector Berlioz produced significant musical and literary works. Berlioz composed mainly in the genres of opera, symphonies...
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    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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    musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Hector Berlioz, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Richard Wagner...
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    French composer Hector Berlioz wrote a number of "overtures", many of which have become popular concert works. They include true overtures, intended to...
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    The Musée Hector-Berlioz (Hector Berlioz Museum) is a museum about the composer Hector Berlioz, in La Côte-Saint-André, Isère, France. The building is...
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    Les Troyens (category Operas by Hector Berlioz)
    opera in five acts, running for about five hours, by Hector Berlioz. The libretto was written by Berlioz himself from Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid; the score...
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  • The composer Hector Berlioz was a prolific writer who supported himself early in his career by writing musical criticism using a bold, vigorous style,...
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    Introduzione) (1827) Hector Berlioz's Harold in Italy (1834) Hector Berlioz's La damnation de Faust: "D’amour l’ardente flamme" Hector Berlioz's Rob Roy Overture...
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    chorus, large children's chorus and orchestra by the French composer Hector Berlioz. He called it a "légende dramatique" (dramatic legend). It was first...
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    des morts (or Requiem), Op. 5, by Hector Berlioz was composed in 1837. The Grande Messe des Morts is one of Berlioz's best-known works, with a tremendous...
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    Franz Liszt (solo piano) and Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (solo violin); Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, and Max Reger have orchestrated the piece. Goethe's poem...
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    music was the technique of the Idée fixe (leitmotif) of the Frenchman Hector Berlioz, who also significantly expanded the orchestra. Felix Mendelssohn was...
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    orchestra and three choruses, with vocal solos, by French composer Hector Berlioz. Émile Deschamps wrote its libretto with Shakespeare's play as his base...
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  • Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) was a French Romantic composer. Berlioz may also refer to: Berlioz (surname) Berlioz Point, a headland of Antarctica 69288...
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  • Program music is a term applied to any musical composition on the classical music tradition in which the piece is designed according to some preconceived...
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    Smithson Berlioz, and Miss H.C. Smithson, was an Anglo-Irish Shakespearean actress of the 19th century, best known as the first wife and muse of Hector Berlioz...
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  • Les Troyens discography (category Operas by Hector Berlioz)
    This is a partial discography of Hector Berlioz's opera, Les Troyens. Its first performance on 4 November 1863 consisted of Acts 3 to 5 only. The first...
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    The Te Deum (Op. 22 / H.118) by Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) was completed in 1849. Like the earlier and more famous Grande Messe des Morts, it is one of...
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    interest. She admired and encouraged Hector Berlioz, as is clear from their extensive correspondence, and Berlioz dedicated his Les Troyens to her. Karolina...
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    Alexandrovich Berlioz The Chairman of the literary bureaucracy MASSOLIT. He bears the last name (Берлиоз) of French composer Hector Berlioz, who wrote the...
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    Harold en Italie (category Symphonies by Hector Berlioz)
    the manuscript describes it, is a four-movement orchestral work by Hector Berlioz, his Opus 16, H. 68, written in 1834. Throughout, the unusual viola...
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    L'enfance du Christ (category Religious music by Hector Berlioz)
    oratorio by the French composer Hector Berlioz, based on the Holy Family's flight into Egypt (see Gospel of Matthew 2:13). Berlioz wrote his own words for the...
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    The French composer Hector Berlioz made four attempts at winning the Prix de Rome music prize, finally succeeding in 1830. As part of the competition,...
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  • Cathedral (b. 1632) 1844 – Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763) 1869 – Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1803) 1872 – Priscilla Susan...
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    Béatrice et Bénédict (category Operas by Hector Berlioz)
    composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz wrote the French libretto himself, based in general outline on a subplot in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Berlioz had...
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    fate-go.us. Retrieved 31 January 2022. Cited sources Berlioz, Hector (2002). The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz. trans. and ed. David Cairns. New York: Everyman...
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    Marie Recio (category Hector Berlioz)
    French 19th-century opera singer (mezzo-soprano), and the second wife of Hector Berlioz. Marie Recio was born in Châtenay-Malabry to a French military father...
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    pronunciation of "H") + UG + crossed bones (os, sounding like "O"). Hector Berlioz was represented by the letters BER low on the socle, with a bed (lit...
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    Lélio (category Compositions by Hector Berlioz)
    is a work incorporating music and spoken text by the French composer Hector Berlioz, intended as a sequel to his Symphonie fantastique. It is written for...
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