It took a long time for the great French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz to win his place among the immortals. When he died in 1869 he was a broken and embittered man, worn out from decades of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Curmudgeonly, spirited, romantic, ultimately tragic and a fan of the ridiculous - on the 150th anniversary of his death, it's time to get excited about Hector Berlioz. 1. He was probably too obsessed ...

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How do you get someone to fall in love with you when the person's clearly not interested? It's been a challenge through the ages. French composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) came up with an ingenious ...

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 ...

The La Jolla Symphony and Chorus is doing something few orchestras are willing to try. They will perform composer Hector Berlioz's "Requiem," this weekend. The 19th century composition is rarely ...

He revived interest in a “problem child” in the pantheon of high romantic composers, bringing Berlioz overdue recognition as one of France’s greatest composers. By Adam Nossiter The Romantic-era ...

Critics bayed for Hector Berlioz’s blood whenever his music was played but happily for the composer, today it’s their reputations and not his in the guillotine Hector Berlioz was a one-off – a genius ...

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 ...