Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Symphonie fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un artiste … en cinq parties (Fantastic Symphony: Episode in the Life of an Artist … in Five Sections) Op. 14, is a programmatic symphony written by Hector Berlioz in 1830. The first performance was at the Paris Conservatoire on 5 December 1830.
Much of Mahler's early work was designed programmatically. However, he made serious efforts to downplay the programmatic reputation of many of these pieces later in his life, including removing some of the programmatic titles from his symphonies. Symphony No. 1, Titan, (1888) Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, (1894) Symphony No. 3, (1896)
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 ...
3: suggested to be called "Heroic", name rejected by Brahms Havergal Brian: 1: D minor: The Gothic: 1919-27: 4: C major: Das Siegeslied: The Song of Victory: 1932-33: 5: Wine of Summer: 1937: 6: Sinfonia Tragica: Tragic Symphony: 1947-48: 22: F minor: Symphonia Brevis: Short Symphony: 23: C major: Sinfonia Grandis: Grand Symphony: conceived ...
This was part of Liszt's performing repertoire, but is now lost [11] 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
Hector Berlioz (1803–1869), French composer of 4 unnumbered, programmatic symphonies: Symphonie fantastique (1830), perhaps the first true programmatic symphony; Harold en Italie (1834), for viola obbligato and orchestra; Roméo et Juliette (1839), a choral symphony with parts for contralto and tenor soloists; and, Grande symphonie funèbre ...
Sometimes a theme may occur at the beginning and end (for example, in Mendelssohn's A minor String Quartet or Brahms's Symphony No. 3); other times a theme occurs in a different guise in every part (e.g. Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, and Saint-Saëns's "Organ" Symphony).
Harold en Italie, symphonie avec un alto principal (Harold in Italy, symphony with viola obbligato), as the manuscript describes it, is a four-movement orchestral work by Hector Berlioz, his Opus 16, H. 68, written in 1834. Throughout, the unusual viola part represents the titular protagonist, without casting the form as a concerto.