Hector Berlioz — more formally, Louis-Hector Berlioz — was born in 1803. It’s amazing to think of this, given the nature of his music. That birth year seems so early!

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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 ...

Witches take over the Houston Symphony this weekend. Classical fans can guess what that means: the return of Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique," a sound spectacular, and no more so than in ...

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 ...

John Nelson, an American conductor known for championing the work of romantic composer Hector Berlioz, including through a prizewinning recording he made of “Les Troyens” — an epic five-act ...

Hector Berlioz did not have the twilight of a great composer. In his memoirs, he described himself in his 60s as “past hopes, past illusions, past high thoughts and lofty conceptions.” ...

El compositor francés, Hector Berlioz, no quería imitar ningún "Romeo y Julieta". Cuando escuchó en Italia la tragedia lírica "I Capuleti e i Montecchi", de Vincenzo Bellini, decidió darle ...