11 December 2014

Bonne anniversaire!

Born on this day in 1803: French composer Hector Berlioz.


He, of course, is best known for his revolutionary Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14. (I chose to use French titles in most of the movements of my still-unfinished First Symphony in his honor.)



He also wrote an important work on orchestration (en français). I still need to study this, as well as Rimsky-Korsakov's.

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