French romantic composer Hector Berlioz produced significant musical and literary works. Berlioz composed mainly in the genres of opera, symphonies, choral...
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French composer Hector Berlioz wrote a number of "overtures", many of which have become popular concert works. They include true overtures, intended to...
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Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer and conductor. His output includes orchestral works such as the...
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by Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) was completed in 1849. Like the earlier and more famous Grande Messe des Morts, it is one of the works referred to by Berlioz...
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Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale (category Symphonies by Hector Berlioz)
and last symphony by the French composer Hector Berlioz, first performed on 28 July 1840 in Paris. It is one of the earliest examples of a symphony composed...
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groundwork for other Romantic composers, such as Hector Berlioz and Franz Liszt, with programmatic works such as his Pastoral Symphony and Piano Sonata...
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Harold en Italie (category Symphonies by Hector Berlioz)
as the manuscript describes it, is a four-movement orchestral work by Hector Berlioz, his Opus 16, H. 68, written in 1834. Throughout, the unusual viola...
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anonymous works. In most cases, Liszt arranged only one or two pieces by a composer, but he delved more deeply into the works of Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Donizetti...
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Three Bs (category Hector Berlioz)
by Peter Cornelius in 1854, which added Hector Berlioz as the third B to occupy the heights already occupied by Bach and Beethoven. Later in the century...
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Artis Musicae. 23 (3): 102–106. ISSN 0015-6191. JSTOR 23506355. List of works by Franz Liszt: Work list at the International Music Score Library Project...
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Benvenuto Cellini (opera) (category Operas by Hector Berlioz)
opera semiseria in four tableaux (spread across two or three acts) by Hector Berlioz, his first full-length work for the stage. Premiered at the Académie...
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Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein (category House of Sayn-Wittgenstein)
which is of vital historical interest. She admired and encouraged Hector Berlioz, as is clear from their extensive correspondence, and Berlioz dedicated...
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Son" "Song of the Balearic Islander" "Every Saturday" Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi provides this list of works with opus numbers, compiled by the composer...
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Saxhorn (section Ranges of individual members)
as described in the orchestration texts of Hector Berlioz and Cecil Forsyth, the J. Howard Foote catalog of 1893, and modern names. The modern instrument...
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Franz Liszt (redirect from Works of Franz Liszt)
friend, musical promoter and benefactor to many composers of his time, including Hector Berlioz, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann and Richard...
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Op. 15, by Hector Berlioz (1840) Lobgesang (also called Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major), Op. 52, by Felix Mendelssohn (1840) Faust Symphony, by Franz Liszt...
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Les Troyens (category Operas by Hector Berlioz)
opera in five acts, running for about five hours, by Hector Berlioz. The libretto was written by Berlioz himself from Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid; the...
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New German School (section Objections of Berlioz)
embarrassing that also works by the Frenchman Berlioz and by Liszt, born in Hungary and usually regarded as Hungarian (albeit of German ancestry), had...
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D-flat major (category Works with IMSLP links)
String Quartet No. 3, Op. 96, which is in D-flat. List of symphonies in D-flat major Berlioz, Hector (1882). A Treatise on Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration:...
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Orfeo ed Euridice (redirect from The Dance of the Blessed Spirits)
(in French). Berlioz, Hector (1915). Gluck and His Operas. Translated by Edwin Evans. London: Wm Reeves. Cairns, David (1999). Berlioz. Volume Two: Servitude...
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April 2016. "Berlioz and Monaco". The Hector Berlioz Website. Retrieved 9 April 2016. Demar Irvine (January 1994). Massenet: A Chronicle of His Life and...
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Plaisir d'amour (category Works with IMSLP links)
Aix-les-Bains in 1816, and the poet was to recall it 30 years later. Hector Berlioz arranged it for orchestra (H134) in 1859. Louis van Waefelghem arranged...
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orchestral works (including film scores) as well as operas. Famous examples are: Vincenzo Bellini's Il Pirata (Act II: Introduzione) (1827) Hector Berlioz's Harold...
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Symphony (section Other modern usages of "symphony")
been composed by the Finn Leif Segerstam, whose list of works includes 352 symphonies. Hector Berlioz originally wrote the Grande symphonie funèbre et...
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received here include Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt and Hector Berlioz. Works composed by Robert Schumann during this period include the Spring Symphony...
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Carl Filtsch (category Pupils of Frédéric Chopin)
most talented pupil, Filtsch received high praise from Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz, Friedrich Wieck, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Ignaz Moscheles, the music critic...
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Choral symphony (section Relation of words and music)
musical form. The term "choral symphony" in this context was coined by Hector Berlioz when he described his Roméo et Juliette as such in his five-paragraph...
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This is a list of musical compositions that employ extended techniques to obtain unusual sounds or instrumental timbres. Hector Berlioz "Dream of Witches'...
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The Master and Margarita (category Works originally published in Russian magazines)
loving God); and the libretto of the opera whose music was composed by Charles Gounod. Also of influence is Louis Hector Berlioz who wrote the opera La damnation...
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Walter Braunfels (category German people of Jewish descent)
Phantastiche Erscheinungen eines Themas von Hector Berlioz (Fantastic Appearances of a Theme by Hector Berlioz), Op. 25 (1914–17) Don Juan Variations for...
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