It took a long time for the great French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz to win his place among the immortals. When he died in 1869 he was a broken and embittered man, worn out from decades of ...

THAT M. Adolphe Jullien should have followed up his Life of Wagner with a similar Life of Berlioz 1 is one of the things which, as he himself more than half admits, may fairly be called fated. As a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The Romantic-era composer, the focus of this year’s Bard Music Festival, wrote works that sprang from a mind capable of thinking only in pipe dreams. Hector Berlioz, whose ...

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It’s sometimes called the "romantic passion," or the "romantic agony." Either way, the French composer Hector Berlioz had it in spades, an overwhelming sense of desire that blinded him to reality as ...

How do you get someone to fall in love with you when the person's clearly not interested? It's been a challenge through the ages. French composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) came up with an ingenious ...

Ludovic Morlot’s connection to Hector Berlioz goes deep. When he was 12, his parents moved to a house just a few miles from La Côte-Saint-André, the composer’s native village in the southeastern ...

Most portraits of composers tend to paint a similar picture: austere, grumpy and – to put it bluntly – fairly unattractive. They certainly don’t tend to scrub up well. And yet, many of the shots of ...

As announced in the preface to his Hector Berlioz, Mr. Apthorp’s aim has been “ to show what the man was, rather than what he did.” The work is practically divided into three parts: first, a ...

Conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner has withdrawn from all future performances for the rest of the year after being accused of slapping a singer after an Aug. 22 concert in France. Louis Hector Berlioz ...

The Romantic-era composer, the focus of this year’s Bard Music Festival, wrote works that sprang from a mind capable of thinking only in pipe dreams. By Joshua Barone Esa-Pekka Salonen is known for ...