Hector Berlioz
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- 2022-12-11 Philharmonie de Paris Paris, FR
- 2022-12-02 Philharmonie de Paris Paris, FR
- 2022-11-04 Le Nouveau Siècle Lille, FR
About Hector Berlioz
Berlioz, the passionate, ardent, irrepressible genius of French Romanticism, left a rich and original oeuvre which exerted a profound influence on 19th century music. Berlioz developed a profound affinity toward music and literature as a child. Sent to Paris at 17 to study medicine, he was enchanted by Gluck's operas, firmly deciding to become a composer. With his father's reluctant consent, Berlioz entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1826. His originality was already apparent and disconcerting -- a competition cantata, Cléopâtre (1829), looms as his first sustained masterpiece -- and he won...
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