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How did Joe know that I disliked Berlioz, or had problems with Berlioz? Well, I’d write things like ... I will give just a few dollops of it. Hector Berlioz — more formally, Louis-Hector ...
Hector Berlioz ... La orquesta y el teatro fueron los espacios en los que Berlioz libró sus grandes batallas, hasta el punto de que trató de fundir la idea sinfónica con la del drama.
Magpie collector of pianistic glitter? Lothario of Europe? And there’s Hector Berlioz. You know, the “one work” man? No technique? Freakish and grotesque? And, as a consequence of all of the foregoing ...
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 ...
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 ...
John Nelson, an American conductor known for championing the work of romantic composer Hector Berlioz, including through ... de Faust” (2019), “Les Nuits d’Eté” and “Harold en Italie ...
Berlioz’s father was a country doctor practising near Grenoble who was musical enough to give his son his first lessons on the flute, though dead set against music as a career. (Later Berlioz took up ...