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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Symphonie fantastique (redirect from Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique)
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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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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Franz Liszt (section Hector Berlioz)
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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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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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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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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La damnation de Faust (redirect from La Damnation de Faust (Berlioz))
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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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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Harriet Smithson (redirect from Harriet Constance Berlioz)
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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List of program music (section Hector Berlioz)
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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Berlioz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Hector Berlioz (1803–1869), French composer and conductor Jacques Berlioz (1891–1975), French...
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Erlkönig (Schubert) (redirect from Erlkönig (Berlioz))
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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Three Bs (category Hector Berlioz)
derived from an expression coined by Peter Cornelius in 1854, which added Hector Berlioz as the third B to occupy the heights already occupied by Bach and Beethoven...
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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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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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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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Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale (category Symphonies by Hector Berlioz)
Symphony), Op. 15, is the fourth and last symphony by the French composer Hector Berlioz, first performed on 28 July 1840 in Paris. It is one of the earliest...
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musical form. The term "choral symphony" in this context was coined by Hector Berlioz when he described his Roméo et Juliette as such in his five-paragraph...
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"La Marseillaise" was arranged for soprano, chorus and orchestra by Hector Berlioz in about 1830. Franz Liszt wrote a piano transcription of the anthem...
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contemporaries, such as Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Charles-Valentin Alkan and Hector Berlioz. The Leipzig Conservatory, which he founded, became a bastion of this...
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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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Shostakovich, and a symphony with a main viola line: Harold en Italie, by Hector Berlioz. In the earlier part of the 20th century, more composers began to write...
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Treatise on Instrumentation (category Books by Hector Berlioz)
written by Hector Berlioz. It was first published in 1844 after being serialised in many parts prior to this date and had a chapter added by Berlioz on conducting...
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historian Hector Berlioz, French composer Hector (Toe) Blake, Canadian hall of fame hockey player and coach Hector Luis Bustamante, Colombian actor Héctor Carrasco...
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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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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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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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Orchestration (section Berlioz)
most significant orchestral innovator of the early 19th century was Hector Berlioz. (The composer was also the author of a Treatise on Instrumentation...
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Benvenuto Cellini (opera) (category Operas by Hector Berlioz)
opera semiseria in four tableaux (spread across two or three acts) by Hector Berlioz, his first full-length work for the stage. Premiered at the Académie...
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