Though Paganini also commissioned from him Harold en Italie for viola and orchestra, he never performed it, and instead it was premiered a year later by violist Christian Urhan.

This is most evident in the thematic aspects of his music, particularly Harold en Italie ( 1834 ), a work inspired by Lord Byron's Childe Harold.

The foremost of these are the Symphonie fantastique ( 1830 ), Harold en Italie ( 1834 ), the Grande messe des morts ( Requiem ) ( 1837 ) and Roméo et Juliette ( 1839 ).

This became the symphony for viola and orchestra, Harold en Italie.

For La damnation de Faust, Berlioz drew on Goethe's Faust ; for Harold en Italie, he drew on Byron's Childe Harold ; for Benvenuto Cellini, he drew on Cellini's own autobiography.

In addition to the Symphonie fantastique, some other orchestral works of Berlioz currently in the standard orchestral repertoire include his " légende dramatique " La damnation de Faust and " symphonie dramatique " Roméo et Juliette ( both large-scale works for mixed voices and orchestra ), and his concertante symphony ( for viola and orchestra ) Harold en Italie, several concert overtures also remain enduringly popular, such as Le Corsaire and Le Carnaval romain.

The eventual composition of Roméo et Juliette as we know it now was made possible by the generous gift of 20, 000 francs by Niccolò Paganini ; after hearing a performance of Harold en Italie at the Paris Conservatoire on 16 December 1838, the great virtuoso had publicly knelt before Berlioz and hailed him as the heir of Beethoven.

* Harold en Italie, the second symphony by Hector Berlioz

During his second and final trip to Russia in the winter of 1867-68, French composer Hector Berlioz conducted his program symphony Harold en Italie.

The finale reflects Harold en Italie in the exuberance of the revelling.

Niccolò Paganini ( 1782 – 1840 ) encouraged Berlioz ( 1803 – 1869 ) to write Harold en Italie.

Harold en Italie is a four-movement work featuring an extensive part for solo viola.

In January 1868 during Hector Berlioz's second trip to Moscow, Laub performed the solo viola part of his Harold en Italie at the Moscow Conservatory under the baton of the composer.

He performed the solo viola part of Berlioz's Harold en Italie multiple times, the first in September 1842 in Brussels under the direction of the composer.

* 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

He then directed Col. Schwarzkopf to continue a thorough and impartial investigation into the kidnapping in an effort to bring all parties involved to justice .< ref > Hoffman, Harold Giles.

The backing vocals ' references to " Mr Wilson " and " Mr Heath ," suggested by Lennon, refer to Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, who were the leaders of the Labour Party and the Conservative Party, the two largest parties in British politics.

In 1990 the sitting MP, Harold McCusker, died and the subsequent by-election was noticeable as for the first time since the early 1970s two major UK political parties stood in a Northern Ireland parliamentary election, the Conservatives and the rump of the Social Democratic Party.

With club dates to fulfill, Davis hired several musicians to fill in: Frank Strozier on alto saxophone and Harold Mabern on piano, with George Coleman and Ron Carter arriving early in the year.

In 1976 he played alto saxophone on Harold Budd's The Pavilion of Dreams.

Harold Steele, principal of the then new Tucson High School, organized the first Scout troop in Tucson on April 20, 1911.

* Harold Wright, clarinet, principal 1952 – mid-1950s?

Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey is a series of American children's books about two fourth graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, and the aptly named superhero they accidentally create by hypnotizing their principal, Mr. Krupp.

One of the principal areas of conflict was the Vietnam War, with Trevor Fisk, the leading member of the traditionalists, refusing to criticise Harold Wilson's government over its tacit support for the United States in the war.

A principal piece of evidence against the Vatican is the " Bigelow dispatch ", an October 16, 1946 dispatch from Emerson Bigelow in Rome to Harold Glasser, the director of monetary research for the U. S. Treasury Department.

Serkin has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, András Schiff, Alexander Schneider, Pamela Frank, Harold Wright ( clarinetist ), the Guarneri String Quartet, the Budapest String Quartet, and other prominent musicians and ensembles, such as principal wind players of major American orchestras.

From the battlefields of World War II to the emergency room of the Montreal General Hospital and the principal ’ s office of McGill University, every turn of Harold Rocke Robertson ’ s remarkable life illustrates one of his favourite quotations: “ As we establish our rightful place in the world, it is chiefly char-acter that counts .”

The Secretary-General of the Congress ( i. e. the principal organiser ) was Dr Harold Frith who was not only one of the hardliners of the ‘ scientists ’ faction of the pre-reform RAOU, but had also threatened to start a competing group with its own journal if the reforms had not proceeded.

Born in Somerville, New Jersey, Mack attended the Juilliard School of Music, studying oboe with Harold Gomberg and Bruno Labate and then at the Curtis Institute of Music with Marcel Tabuteau, the longtime principal oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

After buying the 36-acre campus from a local cattle rancher, Col. Harold Mack, the school opened in the fall of 1950, with Sister Mary Kieran as the first principal.

Drawing inspiration from novels of Edward Bulwer-Lytton ( Harold: the Last of the Saxon Kings-for the location of the opera to Britain in the Middle Ages and for the names of its characters, the principal being Aroldo, re-cast as a recently-returned Crusader ) and " hints " from the work of Walter Scott ( The Bethrothed-1825-and The Lady of the Lake ), the rewriting was delayed until after March 1857 by the preparation for Paris of Le trouvère, the French version of Il trovatore, and his work with Piave on Simon Boccanegra.

The school had only three principals between 1919 and 1982 – Harold Birt, Hubert Kidd, the first layman to be the principal, and Anthony Mallett.

Harold Gomberg ( November 30, 1916 – September 7, 1985 ) was the principal ( first or solo ) oboist of the New York Philharmonic from 1943 through 1977.

A principal piece of evidence against the Vatican is the " Bigelow dispatch ", a October 16, 1946 dispatch from Emerson Bigelow in Rome to Harold Glasser, the director of monetary research for the U. S. Treasury Department.

The opera historian Harold Rosenthal wrote of the Moody-Manners company: " With the Carl Rosa company, it was the principal training ground for British artists in the years before World War I.

The principal founding figures of Fuller Seminary included Charles E. Fuller ( radio evangelist ), Ockenga, Carl Henry, and Harold Lindsell.

It tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice.

* 1899 – Harold Abrahams, English sprinter ( d. 1978 )

* 1966 – Dave Harold, English snooker player

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term ' frequentist ' was first used by M. G. Kendall in 1949, to contrast with Bayesians, whom he called " non-frequentists " ( he cites Harold Jeffreys ).

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

* 1890 – Harold Bride, English wireless officer on RMS Titanic ( d. 1956 )

When Jardine was appointed England's captain for the 1932 – 33 English tour of Australia, a meeting was arranged with Nottinghamshire captain Arthur Carr and his two fast bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce at London's Piccadilly Hotel to discuss a plan to combat Bradman's extraordinary skills.

* 1930 – Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel laureate ( d. 2008 )

* 1939 – Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1066 – Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings – In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the Norman forces of William the Conqueror defeat the English army and kill King Harold II of England.

Richard died during the Battle of Bosworth Field, the last English king to die in battle ( and the only English king to do so on English soil since Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 ).

Jan Harold Brunvand, professor of English at the University of Utah, introduced the term to the general public in a series of popular books published beginning in 1981.

For almost fifty years the vastly wealthy holders of this earldom, first Godwin and then his son Harold, were the most powerful men in English politics after the king.

There were other potential claimants, including the powerful English earl Harold Godwinson, who was named the next king by Edward on the latter's deathbed in January 1066.

After Cnut's death in 1035 the English throne fell to Harold Harefoot, his son by his first wife, while Harthacnut, his son by Emma, became king in Denmark.

Some sources claim that Harold took part in William's Breton campaign of 1064 and that Harold swore to uphold William's claim to the English throne at the end of the campaign, but no English source reports this trip, and it is unclear if it actually occurred.

Later English sources stated that Harold had been elected as king by the clergy and magnates of England.

Harold assembled an army and a fleet to repel William's anticipated invasion force ; troops and ships were deployed along the English Channel for most of the summer.

Although Harold attempted to surprise the Normans, William's scouts reported the English arrival to the duke.

** Harold Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate