Berlioz took up with a second-rate singer called Marie Recio but he never quite forgot Harriet and, towards the end of her life when she had become an invalid, Berlioz was solicitous and tender in her ...

In true Bohemian style Berlioz always wanted to create a symphonic drama that would be a projection of his entire emotional life. On the the ... with permission of the Hector Berlioz website ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland Orchestra’s recording of Hector Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique ... Episode in the Life of an Artist in Five Sections”) is a semi-autobiographical ...

Hector Berlioz’s music is most often heard at Davies ... the drama was Berlioz’s personal life. Jilted, jealous and living in Rome, he plotted to murder his former fiancée and her new beau ...