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Hector Berlioz


Born
in La Côte-Saint-André, France
December 11, 1803

Died
March 08, 1869

Genre
Arts & Photography

Influences
Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Shakespeare, ...more


Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer, conductor, music critic and author, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts (Requiem). Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation (1844). He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a conductor, he performed several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 songs.

Between 1830 and 1840, Berlioz wrote many of his most popular and enduring works. The foremost of these are the Symphonie fantastique (1830), Harold en Italie (1834), the Grande messe des morts (Requiem) (1837) and Roméo et Juliette (1839). Later operatic works ...more

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The Memoirs
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4.32 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 1870 — 39 editions
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Treatise on Instrumentation...
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4.26 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1902 — 28 editions
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Evenings With the Orchestra
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4.20 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1852 — 46 editions
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The Orchestral Conductor Th...
3.64 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1902 — 6 editions
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Berlioz' Fantastic Symphony...
4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1971 — 18 editions
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Eufonía o la ciudad musical
3.35 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1852 — 7 editions
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A Critical Study of Beethov...
4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1974 — 16 editions
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La Damnation de Faust: Dram...
4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1898 — 115 editions
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Symphonie Fantastique and H...
4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions
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The Art of Music and Other ...
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
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“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."

[Letter, November 1856]”
― Hector Berlioz
tags: death, lessons, life, mortality, time
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“Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.”
― Hector Berlioz, The Memoirs
tags: creativity, creativity-and-attitude, disillusion, disillusioned, disillusionment, imagination, music, musician, passion, passion-for-life, reality, reality-expectation, sadness
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“time is an excellent teacher - unfortunately it kills all its pupils”
― Berlioz Hector 1803-1869 Hector
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