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, past high thoughts and lofty conceptions.” ...

During his lifetime, composer Hector Berlioz (1803-69) was the great outsider of French music. Though as composer and conductor he achieved popularity in Germany, England and even Russia, his ...

Hector Berlioz: a biography. Berlioz’s father was a country doctor practising near Grenoble who was musical enough to give his son his first lessons on the flute, though dead set against music as a ...

A signature of Riccardo Muti’s tenure here, the Requiem was performed and recorded to wide acclaim, first through a ...

The World Is Still Catching Up to the Music of Hector Berlioz. The Romantic-era composer, the focus of this year’s Bard Music Festival, wrote works that sprang from a mind capable of thinking ...

Hector Berlioz's LES TROYENS to be Presented at Seattle Opera This Winter . Performances will take place on January 17 & 19, 2025 at McCaw Hall. By: Chloe Rabinowitz Dec. 05, 2024.

French composer Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique “ is a trip. Across an unconventional five movements, it depicts the hallucinatory experience of a lovelorn artist attempting suicide ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — The Faustian legend captivated French composer Hector Berlioz from the very first time he read it. If You Go. What: Concert performance of "La damnation de Faust" by Hector ...

The Santa Fe Symphony concludes its 2024-2025 season with Hector Berlioz' The Damnation of Faust, one of the greatest (and largest) musical works of the 19th century.

John Nelson, an American conductor known for championing the work of romantic composer Hector Berlioz, including through a prizewinning recording he made of “Les Troyens” — an epic five-act ...