1830

1830 Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14

In December 1830 Ludwig van Beethoven had been dead less than four years and his “Pastoral” Symphony and Leonore Overtures were then the most radical descriptive program music known to the world. In December 1830 a twenty-six-year-old composer named Hector Berlioz was waiting anxiously for the first performance—scheduled at the Paris Conservatory for the fifth of the month—of his new “great symphony,” the first part of a work in two sections called “Episode in the Life of an Artist.” One of the earliest mentions of the score was in a letter Berlioz wrote to his friend Humbert Fernand in February […]

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