Hector Berlioz did not have the twilight of a great composer. In his memoirs, he described himself in his 60s as “past hopes, past illusions...
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Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.. During his lifetime, composer Hector Berlioz (1803-69) was the great outsider of French music.
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Nearly every work by the French Romantic-era composer Hector Berlioz “defies conventional analysis and taxonomy, and must be approached on...
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Learn how the outlandish romantic Hector Berlioz enjoyed a dramatic revival. Discover all the great composers at classical-music.com.
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A member of the educated classes, a librarian, music critic, composer, eccentric, genius – Hector Berlioz combined many gifts and facets.
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This is Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing reimagined as opera by Hector Berlioz. The last thing he wrote, it was first performed...
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Fans of Hector Berlioz — and record companies, it appears — need no excuse to celebrate the music of the pioneering French composer and...
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Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) is celebrated for expanding the orchestra, revolutionizing musical form, and giving a new exalted role to program music.
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Curmudgeonly, spirited, romantic, ultimately tragic and a fan of the ridiculous - on the 150th anniversary of his death, it's time to get excited about Hector...
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Hector Berlioz - Composer, Orchestrator, Innovator: The outstanding characteristics of Berlioz's music—its dramatic expressiveness and variety—account for...
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