Hector Berlioz
Opera, Composer
1803 – 1869
Who was Hector Berlioz?
Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts. Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducted several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 songs. His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler and many others.
Famous Quotes:
- Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
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- Born
- Dec 11, 1803
La Côte-Saint-André - Also known as
- Berlioz
- H. Berlioz
- Berliotz
- Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
- Berlioz, Hector
- Spouses
- Harriet Smithson
(1833/10/03 - )
- Harriet Smithson
- Children
- Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Lived in
- Rhône-Alpes
- Died
- Mar 8, 1869
Paris - Resting place
- Montmartre Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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