Nothing about Hector Berlioz’s music is remotely conventional. He went his own way, carving out each successive score with a bracing spontaneity and freedom that left most of his contemporaries in the ...

THE LIFE OF HECTOR BERLIOZ. As Written by Himself in His Letters and Memoirs. Translated from the French, with an introduction by Katharine F. Boult, 12mo. Pp., xviii. -305.

Coming to terms with Hector Berlioz, a fascinating composer, on the 150th anniversary of his death. ... T he life is fascinating — well-nigh operatic — and I will give just a few dollops of it.

Hector Berlioz (born December 11, 1803; died March 8, 1869) was the arch-Romantic composer, his life was all you’d expect – by turn turbulent and passionate, ecstatic and melancholic. Quick links Tim ...

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 ...

Hector Berlioz’s love life, from a Clare actress to a singer who miaowed. The composer’s work was informed by his many amorous adventures and the Romantic poetry of Théophile Gautier.

OF Hector Berlioz as a musician, others have spoken with an authority to which I cannot pretend. ... to trace the influence of Shakespeare upon his life and upon his genius.

Why is it human nature to want what we can’t have? In 1827, the 23-year-old Hector Berlioz attended a performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Odéon Theatre in Paris; Harriet Smithson, a charismatic ...

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 ...