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The piece tells the story of the artist's drug-fuelled hallucinations, beginning with a ball and a scene in a field and ending with a march to the scaffold and a satanic dream. The artist's passion is represented by an elusive theme which Berlioz called the idée fixe , a contemporary medical term also found in literary works of the period. [ 1 ]
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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 ...
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Dance at the Gym (from West Side Story) by Leonard Bernstein / March to the Scaffold (from Symphonie Fantastique) by Hector Berlioz / Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield / Artistry in Rhythm by Stan Kenton / So Very Hard To Go by Emilio Castillo & Stephen Kupka (Tower of Power) / Firebird Suite by Igor Stravinsky: 88.550: 3rd Place Open Class ...
Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale V: March 1855 – August 1859 [nos. 1905–2395], ed. by Hugh J. Macdonald and François Lesure (1989) Hector Berlioz, Correspondance Générale VI: September 1859 – 1863 [nos. 2396–2816], ed. by Hugh J. Macdonald and François Lesure (1995)
The opening of the fourth movement, entitled "March to the Scaffold" features what for the time (1830) must have seemed a bizarre mix of sounds. The timpani and the double basses play thick chords against the snarling muted brass: March to the Scaffold from the Symphonie fantastique Berlioz, March to the Scaffold from the Symphonie fantastique
Pages in category "Operas by Hector Berlioz" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... This page was last edited on 14 March 2013, ...