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The Symphonie fantastique is a piece of programme music that tells the story of a gifted artist who, in the depths of hopelessness and despair because of his unrequited love for a woman, has poisoned himself with opium. The piece tells the story of the artist's drug-fuelled hallucinations, beginning with a ball and a scene in a field and ending ...
Berlioz by August Prinzhofer, 1845. Louis-Hector Berlioz [n 1] (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer and conductor. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy, choral pieces including the Requiem and L'Enfance du Christ, his three operas Benvenuto Cellini, Les Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict, and works of hybrid ...
Program music is a term applied to any musical composition on the classical music tradition in which the piece is designed according to some preconceived narrative, or is designed to evoke a specific idea and atmosphere.
Other famous works which employ it include Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah and Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream (originally scored for English bass horn), as well as Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, which was originally scored to include both an ophicleide and a serpent. Today, it is often replaced with two tubas in modern orchestral ...
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 (1830) Episode de la vie d'un artiste. Grande Symphonie fantastique. Partition de Piano: c. 1833 S.470 In c. 1864–65 Liszt made a new transcription of the 4th movement, "March au supplice". [10] L'idée fixe. Andante amoroso: S.395 Based on the theme of the Symphonie: Lélio, Op. 14b (1831)
Opening bars. Lélio is a kind of sequel to Symphonie fantastique and makes use of the famous idée fixe (the recurring musical theme symbolising the beloved) from that work. . Both the symphony and Lélio were inspired by the composer's unhappy love affairs, the symphony by Harriet Smithson, Lélio by Marie Moke, who had broken off her engagement to Berlioz in order to marry Camille Pleyel ...
Chronique symphonie: Chronic symphony: 1940–53: Op. 10 2: Homerische Symphonie: Homeric Symphony: 1948: Was used in the 1948–49 Austrian drama film On Resonant Shores: 3: Sinfonia Parabolica: Parabolic Symphony: 1956: 4: Symphonischer Triglyph "Drei Fenster" Triglyph Symphony "Three Windows" 1957 "Metamorphoses" for orchestra on motifs by ...
Another famous example is the oboe and cor anglais theme of the third movement of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. Henry David Thoreau compared the song of the wood thrush to a ranz des vaches: "So there is something in the music of the cow bell, something sweeter and more nutritious, than in the milk which the farmers drink.