Hector Berlioz

The 'symphonie Fantastique' (Episode in the life of an artist) was heard for the first time in Paris on 5 December 1830. Still we can feel the beating of the creator's heart at every performance. In t...

Berlioz considered it very important that listeners should understand the program of the cycle of five movements which made make up his most famous 'Symphonie Fantastique', so he insisted that audienc...

La Damnation de Faust was in the beginning a kind of oratorio, although Hector Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) called it himself a concert-opera. To place the Hungarian March in the piece, Hector Berlioz s...

Great Classical Music for Winds The Washington Winds Conducted by Edward Petersen Einmal gehört - immer geliebt: hören Sie diesen Aufnahmen zu, und Sie verstehen, was es heisst, klassische Musik von e...

Viola und Klavier alto et piano Création le 21 janvier 2010, à l'Auditorium du Louvre - Paris (France), par Arnaud Thorette (alto) et Johan Farjot (piano).

Following the composition of Harold en Italie for viola and orchestra in 1834, Berlioz began work on the opera Benvenuto Cellini, which subsequently failed on its first performances at the Paris Opera...