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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 ...
Program music is a term applied to any musical composition on the classical music tradition in which the piece is designed according to ... Symphonie Fantastique, (1830)
Beethoven later returned to program music with his Piano Sonata Op. 81a, Les Adieux, which depicts the departure and return of his close friend the Archduke Rudolf. Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique was a musical narration of a hyperbolically emotional love story, the main subject being an actress with whom he was in love at the time.
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 ...
"Dream of Witches' Sabbath" from Symphonie Fantastique. The violins and violas play col legno, striking the wood of their bows on the strings (Berlioz 1899, 220–22). Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber; Battalia (1673). The strings play col legno, striking the wood of their bows on the strings, in addition to numerous other techniques (Boyden 2001).
Berlioz's own program notes should really be incorporated into this article. They are pretty easy to find on the web by googling 'symphonie fantastique program'. DavidRF 04:02, 3 November 2006 (UTC) idée fixe "again, derived from the idée fixe" - this appears to be the only sentence concerning the idée fixe and no further explanation is given.
Symphonie fantastique, épisode de la vie d’un artiste 1830 5 December 1830 16 51 Hymne des Marseillais: 1830 Two versions 22b 51bis Chant du neuf Thermidor: 1830 arrangement of music by Rouget de Lisle: 22b 52 Ouverture pour la Tempête de Shakespeare: 1830 7 November 1830 later incorporated into Lélio 7 53 4 Le roi Lear, grande ouverture 1831
La Symphonie fantastique is a 1942 French drama film by Christian-Jaque [1] and produced by the German-controlled French film production company Continental Films. The film is based upon the life of the French composer Hector Berlioz. The title is taken from the five-movement programmatic Symphonie fantastique of 1830.