THAT M. Adolphe Jullien should have followed up his Life of Wagner with a similar Life of Berlioz 1 is one of the things which, as he himself more than half admits, may fairly be called fated. As a ...

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 music ...

“A lot of people have been rude about Hector Berlioz,” says English Conductor Colin Davis, and he wishes they would quit. Alas, poor Berlioz has suffered more than his share. In 1829, when he was 25, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The Romantic-era composer, the focus of this year’s Bard Music Festival, wrote works that sprang from a mind capable of thinking only in pipe dreams. Hector Berlioz, whose ...

WINSTED — In October, Northwestern Connecticut Community College will be offering Special Topics: Berlioz: The Bigger, The Better (MUS 298) on its campus in Winsted. The course will explore the life ...

We’re nearly 11 months into this 200th year since the birth of French composer Hector Berlioz, and it seems that the anniversary is unlikely to be heralded in the same way Beethoven’s 200th birthday ...

Most composers have as much trouble as writers of program notes trying to explain with words what their music is trying to say. An exception was redhaired, articulate Hector Berlioz. He had been ...

The Bay Atlantic Symphony will present a dramatic performance of contrasts for its March concerts featuring the music of German composer Johannes Brahms and French composer Louis-Hector Berlioz.

Hector Berlioz seems to have appreciated the work of 16th Century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, but was more inspired by his life. So inspired, in fact, that he wrote an opera about Cellini. JoAnn ...

As announced in the preface to his Hector Berlioz, Mr. Apthorp’s aim has been “ to show what the man was, rather than what he did.” The work is practically divided into three parts: first, a ...

Hector Berlioz felt misunderstood and unappreciated in Paris. In turn, he looked down his nose at the Parisians. His comic opera Beatrice and Benedict was first performed not in France, but in Germany ...