Berlioz wrote in 1844:

Hector Berlioz, too, wrote the libretti for two of his best-known works, La Damnation de Faust and Les Troyens.

Between 1830 and 1840, Berlioz wrote many of his most popular and enduring works.

In 1841, Berlioz wrote recitatives for a production of Weber's Der Freischütz at the Paris Opéra and also orchestrated Weber's Invitation to the Dance to add ballet music to it ( he titled the ballet L ' Invitation à la valse, and the original piano piece has often been mistitled as a result ).

Liszt was an enthusiastic performer and supporter, and Wagner himself, after first expressing great reservations about Berlioz, wrote to Liszt saying: " we, Liszt, Berlioz and Wagner, are three equals, but we must take care not to say so to him.

He wrote most of his operas in the traditions of Italian and French opera established by such as Donizetti, Rossini, Berlioz, Gounod and Thomas.

Other 19th-century French composers like Meyerbeer, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saëns, Georges Bizet and Jules Massenet wrote attractive parts for baritones, too.

Berlioz wrote extensively in his memoirs of his trials and tribulations in getting this symphony performed due to supply or lack of capable harpists and harps, especially in Germany.

In 1831, Berlioz wrote a lesser known sequel to the work, Lelio, for actor, orchestra and chorus.

Berlioz – who had commented that ' Meyerbeer not only had the luck to be talented, he had the talent to be lucky ' – wrote ' I can't forget that Meyerbeer was only able to persuade Opéra to put on Robert le diable ... by paying the administration sixty thousand francs of his own money '; and Chopin lamented ' Meyerbeer had to work for three years and pay his own expenses for his stay in Paris before Robert le diable could be staged .... Three years, that's a lot – it's too much.

The composers Hector Berlioz and Richard Wagner attained greatness as conductors, and they wrote two of the earliest essays dedicated to the subject.

In Paris, Berlioz conducted some excerpts from Glinka ’ s operas and wrote an appreciative article about him.

The composer Hector Berlioz also wrote reviews and criticisms for the Paris press of the 1830s and 1840s.

Berlioz conducted the first two performances of a German version in Weimar, where, as he wrote in his memoirs, he was " overwhelmed by all sorts of kind attention.

As his admirer Berlioz wrote: was fully convinced that in truly dramatic music, when the importance of the situation deserves the sacrifice, the composer should not hesitate as between a pretty musical effect that is foreign to the scenic or dramatic character, and a series of accents that are true but do not yield any surface pleasure.

On 3 May 1861, Berlioz wrote in a letter: " I am sure that I have written a great work, greater and nobler than anything done hitherto.

In subsequent years, wrote British Berlioz biographer David Cairns, the work was thought of as " a great sprawling white elephant, product of declining creative vitality, beautiful in patches but fatally uneven and quite unstageable —— apart from anything else, because of its length.

Hector Berlioz, the 19th-century French Romantic composer, wrote a very early cantata on the subject of the Death of Sardanapalus.

Like other composers such as Berlioz and Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky was deeply inspired by Shakespeare and wrote works based on The Tempest and Hamlet as well.

Stasov initially wrote the program for Manfred for Hector Berlioz to use.

Berlioz wrote, " My intention was to write a series of orchestral scenes, in which the solo viola would be involved as a more or less active participant while retaining its own character.

He wrote the text for the oratorio Romeo and Juliet composed by Hector Berlioz in 1839.

Berlioz wrote a review in Maurice Schlesinger's widely distributed and very influential La Revue et Gazette musicale de Paris of a performance at a music evening given by the Tilmant brothers on May 6, 1838:

* 1803 – Hector Berlioz, French composer ( d. 1869 )

* March 8 – Hector Berlioz, French composer ( b. 1803 )

* December 11 – Hector Berlioz, French composer ( d. 1869 )

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 ).

Berlioz appears to have been innately Romantic, this characteristic manifesting itself in his love affairs, adoration of great romantic literature, and his weeping at passages by Virgil ( by age twelve he had learned to read Virgil in Latin and translate it into French under his father's tutelage ), Shakespeare, and Beethoven.

Despite Berlioz not understanding spoken English and Harriet not knowing any French, on 3 October 1833, they married in a civil ceremony at the British Embassy with Liszt as one of the witnesses.

The music of Berlioz enjoyed a revival during the 1960s and 1970s, due in large part to the efforts of French conductor Charles Munch and of British conductor Sir Colin Davis, who recorded his entire oeuvre, bringing to light a number of Berlioz's lesser-known works.

The ' Berlioz 2003 ' celebrations, organised by French academic institutions, also had a prominent website, listing events, publications and gatherings the domain of which has now lapsed.

The timing for these performances, not just for Berlioz ' career but also for French Romanticism in general, could not have been more apt.

* Association Nationale Hector Berlioz The French National Berlioz Society

Gluck's greatest French admirer would be Hector Berlioz, whose epic Les Troyens may be seen as the culmination of the Gluckian tradition.

In 1846 Smetana attended concerts given in Prague by Berlioz, and in all likelihood met the French master at a reception arranged by Proksch.

" He used musical themes to represent specific characters ; in this manner he more closely followed the practice of French composer Hector Berlioz in his choral symphony Roméo et Juliette than that of Liszt.

" In this Glinka was influenced by French composer Hector Berlioz, whom he met in the summer of 1844.

14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830.

A version in French with recitatives was prepared by Hector Berlioz for a production at the Paris Opera in 1841.

* Hector Berlioz ( 1803-1869 ), French composer

* Jacques Berlioz ( 1891-1975 ), French zoologist

One of the major French composers of the time, and one of the most innovative composers of the early Romantic era, was Hector Berlioz.

Roméo et Juliette is a " symphonie dramatique ", a large-scale choral symphony by French composer Hector Berlioz, which was first performed on 24 November 1839.

The first known Western classical composition to feature a goblet drum is the opera Les Troyens ( 1856 – 1858 ) by the French composer Hector Berlioz, which calls for a tarbuka in the Dance of the Nubian Slaves in Act IV.

24 is a work for four solo voices, full seven-part chorus, large children's chorus and orchestra by the French composer Hector Berlioz.