* December 5 – Hector Berlioz's most famous work, Symphonie Fantastique, has its world premiere in Paris.

RCA recorded a handful of LPs with Steinberg and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique with Georges Prêtre during the transition to DG ( see William Steinberg for a complete list of commercial recordings ).

He also paved the way for his successor when he invited the young Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa ( b. 1935 ) to guest conduct the orchestra ; Ozawa quickly impressed critics and audiences with his fiery Bernstein-like conducting, particularly in the performances of the Mussorgsky-Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition, the Tchaikovsky fourth symphony, and Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz.

Allison Latham, " Symphonie Fantastique ", The Oxford Companion to Music ( Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002 ).

* Symphonie Fantastique at the Internet Archive, performed by the Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting.

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* Berlioz Harold in Italy, King Lear Overture, Le Corsaire Overture, Les Francs-Juges Overture, Les Troyens Overture, Roman Carnival Overture, Symphonie Fantastique, Trojan March, Waverley Overture

** Georg Solti ( conductor ) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

** David Harvey ( producer ), Georg Solti ( conductor ) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

** Kenneth Wilkinson ( engineer ), Georg Solti ( conductor ) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

** Pierre Boulez ( conductor ) & the Cleveland Orchestra for Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique ; Tristia

Col legno is used in the final movement of the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Frédéric Chopin, which predates the more famous use in the " Dream of Witches ' Sabbath ", in the final movement of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, in the score of the film Alien by Jerry Goldsmith, as well as in " Mars, the Bringer of War " from Holst's The Planets, the first movement of Mahler's Symphony No. 2, and Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain.

" Musically, the supposed ritual has been used as inspiration for such works as Night on Bald Mountain by Modest Mussorgsky and the fifth movement of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.

* Hector Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique

" In the Revue musicale issue of 1 February 1835 he wrote of the Symphonie Fantastique, " had no taste for melody and but the feeblest notion of rhythm ; that his harmony, composed by piling up tones into heaps that were often monstrous, was nevertheless flat and monotonous.

He went on to criticize Fétis in one of the monologues of Lélio, ou le Retour é la vie, the 1832 sequel to Symphonie Fantastique: “ These young theorists of eighty, living in the midst of a sea of prejudices and persuaded that the world ends with the shores of their island ; these old libertines of every age who demand that music caress and amuse them, never admitting that the chaste muse could have a more noble mission ; especially these desecrators who dare lay hands on original works, subjecting them to horrible mutilations that they call corrections and perfections, which, they say, require considerable taste.

Composers ’ use of extended techniques is not specific to contemporary music ( for instance, Hector Berlioz ’ s use of col legno in his Symphonie Fantastique is an extended technique ) and it transcends compositional schools and styles.

** Pierre Boulez ( conductor ) & the Cleveland Orchestra for Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique ; Tristia

** Georg Solti ( conductor ) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

** David Harvey ( producer ), Georg Solti ( conductor ) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

** Kenneth Wilkinson ( engineer ), Georg Solti ( conductor ) & the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

* Symphonie Fantastique, filmed in 1948 with the Royal Danish Ballet, choreography by Léonide Massine.

Before returning to Rome, Berlioz composed the overtures to King Lear in Nice and Rob Roy, and began work on a sequel to the Symphonie fantastique, Le retour à la vie ( The Return to Life ), renamed Lélio in 1855.

In Leipzig he met Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann, the latter of whom had written an enthusiastic article on the Symphonie fantastique.

At one point, Robert Schumann was motivated to publish a detailed rebuttal of one of Fétis ' attacks on Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique in his own Neue Zeitschrift für Musik journal.

Publication at the moment of the premiere of Morbido Symphonie in Paris on May 11, 2007.

Berlioz also loosely based his Symphonie fantastique on Confessions of an English Opium Eater, drawing on the theme of the internal struggle with one's self.

His best known pieces are probably the Symphony on a French Mountain Air ( Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français, also known as Symphonie cévenole ) for piano and orchestra ( 1886 ), and Istar ( 1896 ), a symphonic poem in the form of a set of variations in which the theme appears only at the end.

Laid out in six separate movements, each of them an independent song, the work is described on the title-page as Eine Symphonie für eine Tenor-und eine Alt-( oder Bariton -) Stimme und Orchester ( nach Hans Bethges " Die chinesische Flöte ") – " A Symphony for Tenor and Alto ( or Baritone ) Voice and Orchestra ( after Hans Bethge's ' The Chinese Flute '").

Cévenole ), as in d ' Indy's Symphonie Cévenole, a composer of Ardèche origin ( known in English as his " Symphony on a French Mountain Air ").

A work in the same vein, but with the piano taking the " concertante " part is Vincent d ' Indy's Symphonie Cévenole ( Symphony on a French Mountain Air ).

He also choreographed a ballet to Hector Berlioz's 1830 Symphonie Fantastique and danced the role of the Young Musician with Tamara Toumanova as the Beloved at its premiere at Covent Garden, London, on 24 July 1936 with Colonel W. de Basil's Ballets Russes.

The two first met after a concert of Berlioz ’ s works conducted by Narcisse Girard on 22 December 1833, three years after the premiere of Berlioz ’ s Symphonie fantastique.

The film is based on the novella La Symphonie Pastorale by André Gide and adapted to the screen by Jean Aurenche.

Though it is frequently listed, even on record and CD covers, as a symphony for orchestra " and organ ", the composer inscribed it as: Symphonie No. 3 " avec orgue " ( with organ ).

Even though the modern actual French spelling of Symphonie Périodique is Symphonie Périodique, the original 18th century French title of such works was Simphonie Periodique, as it can be seen on the 18th century frontispiece of Vanhal's published symphonies " a Amsterdam chez J. J. Hummel, Marchand & Imprimeur de Musique ".

The Symphonie espagnole had some influence on the genesis of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D major.

The Philadelphia Orchestra returned to the Grand Court on September 27, 2008 for the premiere performance of Joseph Jongen's Symphonie Concertante ( 1926 ) on the organ for which it was written.

Hector Berlioz (; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869 ) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts ( Requiem ).

* Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique ( third movement ) ( 1830 )

The related idea of the musical idée fixe was coined by Hector Berlioz in reference to his Symphonie fantastique ( 1830 ).

* 1974 Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op.

* 1974 Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op.

* 1974 Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op.

* Hector Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique

The paradigmatic example is Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, which relates a drug-induced series of morbid fantasies concerning the unrequited love of a sensitive poet involving murder, execution, and the torments of Hell.

Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique was a musical narration of a hyperbolically emotional love story he wrote himself.

* " Un bal ", the second movement of Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz

The French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz used opium to be inspired, subsequently producing his Symphonie Fantastique.

14b, is a work incorporating music and spoken text by the French composer Hector Berlioz, intended as a sequel to his Symphonie fantastique.

Henrietta Constance ( Harriet ) Smithson ( 1800-3 March 1854 ) was an Anglo-Irish actress, the first wife of Hector Berlioz, and the inspiration for his Symphonie Fantastique.

* Hector Berlioz — Symphonie Fantastique, Funeral and Triumphal Symphony

* Symphonie Fantastique Hector Berlioz, Charles Munch, conductor, Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater also served as inspiration to one of Hector Berlioz's most famous pieces, Symphonie Fantastique.

* Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Overture Les Francs-Juges, Virgin Classics 3632862 ( reissue )

* Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique ( E )