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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.
Symphonie Fantastique, (1830) ... symphonic picture in three parts, Op. 30; The ... He composed a total of thirteen symphonic poems as well as two programmatic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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).
Isidore of Seville was the first to use the word symphonia as the name of a two-headed drum, [3] and from c. 1155 to 1377 the French form symphonie was the name of the organistrum or hurdy-gurdy. In late medieval England, symphony was used in both of these senses, whereas by the 16th century it was equated with the dulcimer.