Hector Berlioz, that towering figure of French Romanticism, was no longer the fiery, wildly imaginative and volatile young composer of Symphonie fantastique (1830) by the time he wrote Les Troyens ...

In 2003, classical music lovers mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of 19th-century French composer Hector Berlioz. But as his native country begins a year-long series of commemorative ...

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Yet Berlioz was no sensation-seeking iconoclast, rather a visionary seeker of eternal truths. Shortly before starting work on his Symphonie Fantastique, he wrote: “There are new things, many new ...

Hector Berlioz: His contemporaries were unsure how his work was to be understood. It has been 200 years since the birth of Hector Berlioz, and he remains every bit as perplexing a composer as he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...