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Louis-Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, conductor and critic. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy, choral pieces including the Requiem and L'Enfance du Christ, his three operas Benvenuto Cellini, Les Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict, and works of hybrid genres such as the "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette and the "dramatic leg…
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Born 11 December 1803 · Died 8 March 1869 · Q1151
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“s Invitation to the Dance to provide the obligatory ballet music. In the same year he completed settings of six poems by his friend Théophile Gautier, which formed the song cycle Les Nuits d”
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“the poetic memories formed from my wanderings in Abruzzi”
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planethugill.com: A libretto by Beaumarchais, admired by Berlioz: Salieri's final French opera Tarare is an important milestone & it returns to Versailles in October
Cadena SER: La Quincena Musical acogerá el Réquiem de Berlioz con más de 300 músicos vascos
todalamusica.es: La BOS aborda el monumental Réquiem de Berlioz en la Quincena Musical
Infobae: La Quincena de San Sebastián aborda el Réquiem más fiel a Berlioz con formaciones vascas
donostitik.com: El Orfeón Donostiarra y Easo Abesbatza, ante el monumental ‘Réquiem’ de Berlioz en el Kursaal
Mundoclasico.com: Hector Berlioz, Le Carnaval Romain, Symphonie fantastique, Bremer Philharmoniker, Marko Letonja, Dirigent
BroadwayWorld: Reseña: BBC PROMS: PAPPANO DIRIGE EL 'REQUIEM' DE BERLIOZ, Royal Albert Hall
BroadwayWorld: Review: BBC PROMS: PAPPANO CONDUCTS BERLIOZ’S ‘REQUIEM’, Royal Albert Hall
musicOMH: Pappano Conducts Berlioz’ ‘Requiem’ review – a five-star Proms triumph of clarity and grandeur
The Arts Desk: BBC Proms: Berlioz Requiem, LSO, Pappano review - maximal orchestra and chorus, musical minimalism
Bachtrack: Rumble! A Berlioz Requiem to shake the soul at the BBC Proms
Seen and Heard International: Master conductor, top orchestra, choirs and tenor made Berlioz’s Requiem the Prom of 2026 so far
The Guardian: LSO/LSO Chorus/BBC Symphony Chorus/Henric/Pappano review – grand forces capture the viscerality and desperation of Berlioz’s Requiem
planethugill.com: Thrilling moments, terrific theatre, intimacy & transcendence: Sir Antonio Pappano conducts Berlioz's Requiem at BBC Proms with London Symphony Orchestra
Colin's Column: Additional photo (3) for… BBC Proms 2026 – London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Chorus, Julien Henric – Sir Antonio Pappano conducts Berlioz’s Requiem (Grande Messe des morts).
The Upcoming: BBC Proms: Pappano Conducts Berlioz’s Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall
Colin's Column: BBC Proms 2026 – London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Chorus, Julien Henric – Sir Antonio Pappano conducts Berlioz’s Requiem (Grande Messe des morts).
Opera Today: PROMS 2026: Grandeur and Intimacy Shape Pappano’s Revelatory Berlioz Requiem
Westminster Extra: Michael White’s music news: Prom nights, with Berlioz; Richard Strauss; Anthony McGill; Elgar; Walton and Davis
BroadwayWorld: Review: BBC PROMS: BERLIOZ'S '‘SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE’, Royal Albert Hall
BroadwayWorld: Reseña: BBC PROMS: ‘SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE’ DE BERLIOZ, Royal Albert Hall
karlobag.eu: BBC Proms en Londres: Réquiem de Berlioz, Pappano y entradas para una velada en el Royal Albert Hall
Karlobag.eu: BBC Proms: Berlioz Requiem at Royal Albert Hall - Tickets
uDiscoverMusic: Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky & Sibelius, And Berlioz Recordings Join Decca Pure Analogue Series
The music critic Michael Quinn called it "an opera overflowing in every way, with musical gold bursting from each curve and crevice
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The composer and critic Bayan Northcott wrote that the work of Cairns, Rushton, Sir Colin Davis and others retained "the embattled conviction of a cause"
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Released album “Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique”.
Released album “La Damnation de Faust”.
Released album “Berlioz Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Berlioz Requiem opus 5”.
Released album “Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale”.
Released album “Harold en Italie / Rêverie et caprice”.
Released album “Harold en Italie, op. 16”.
Released album “Symphonie Fantastique / Lélio”.
Released album “Requiem”.
Released album “La Marseillaise / Love Scene From Romeo & Juliet / The Damnation Of Faust - Three Excerpts / Overture To Benvenuto Cellini / Royal Hunt & Storm / Trojan March / Le Corsaire Overture”.
Released album “Les Nuits d'été / La Mort de Cléopâtre / Les Troyens: Mort de Didon”.
Released album “L’Enfance du Christ, op. 25”.
Released album “Harold in Italy / Rob Roy / Le Corsaire”.
Released album “Benvenuto Cellini”.
Released album “Berlioz: Les nuits d'été / Ravel: Shéhérazade / Debussy / Poulenc”.
Released album “Cantatas: La Mort d'Orphée / Scène Héroïque / Le Cinq Mai / L'Impériale”.
Released album “Révolution Française”.
Released album “Symphony no. 4 in F minor, op. 36”.
Released album “Symphonie fantastique, Carnaval romain & Le Corsaire”.
Released album “Symphonie Fantastique, op. 14”.
Of the first thematic catalogue of Berlioz's works; two years later he published a single-volume biography of the composer
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Released album “Ouvertures”.
Released album “Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette”.
Released album “Requiem / Symphonie funèbre et triomphale”.
Released album “Harold en Italie / Le Carnaval romain – Ouverture”.
Released album “Weber: Invitation to the Dance / Berlioz: Les Troyens à Carthage / Lecocq: Mam'zelle Angot”.
Released album “Roméo et Juliette”.
Released album “Berlioz: Les nuits d’été / Debussy: La damoiselle élue”.
Released album “La Damnation de Faust (Selection)”.
Released album “Te Deum”.
Released album “Sinfonia fantastica op. 14”.
Released album “Berlioz: Le Carnaval romain / Ouverture de « Béatrice et Bénédict » / Marche hongroise / Dukas: L’Apprenti sorcier / Saint‐Saëns: Danse macabre / Bacchanale de « Samson et Dalila » / Le Déluge”.
Released album “Lalo: Symphonie espagnole / Berlioz: Rêverie et caprice”.
Released album “Cléopâtre / Herminie”.
Released album “Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été / Ravel: Shéhérazade”.
Released album “Requiem (Grande Messe des Morts)”.
Released album “Béatrice et Bénédict”.
Released album “Symphony Fantastique”.
Released album “Harold in Italy op. 16”.
Released album “Family Library of Great Music – Berlioz”.
Released album “Romeo & Juliet”.
Released album “L’Enfance du Christ”.
Released album “Overtures”.
Released album “Boulez Conducts Berlioz”.
Released album “Pierre Boulez Conducts Berlioz: Lélio (The Return to Life)”.
Released album “Les Troyens”.
Released album “Requiem, op. 5 (Grande Messe des morts)”.
Marking the centenary of the composer's death
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And published a two-volume, 1500-page study of the composer (1989 and 1999), described in Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians as "one of the masterpieces of modern biography"
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Released album “Requiem: Grande Messe des Morts”.
As the inaugural general editor of the New Berlioz Edition published by Bärenreiter; 26 volumes were issued between 1967 and 2006 under his editorship
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Released album “Harold in Italy, op. 16”.
Released album “Symphonie fantastique”.
Released album “Shéhérazade / Nuits d'été”.
Released album “L'Enfance du Christ”.
Released album “Harold in Italy”.
When for the first time a professional opera company staged the original version of The Trojans in a single evening
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Released album “Toccata en fa majeur / Concerto pour 2 trompettes en ut / Sonate en fa dièse, op. 78, « À Thérèse » / Symphonie n° 26 en mi bémol (K. 184) / Fantaisie‐impromptu, op. 66 / Carnaval romain, Ouverture”.
Released album “Debussy: The Blessed Damozel / Berlioz: Summer Nights”.
The fifth edition of Grove carried this verdict from Léon Vallas:
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Released album “The Damnation of Faust”.
Released album “Overtures: “Le Corsaire” / “Benvenuto Cellini” / “Béatrice et Bénedict” / “Les Francs Juges””.
Barzun made the point that although Berlioz was praised by his artistic peers, including Schumann, Wagner, César Franck and Modest Mussorgsky, the public had heard little of his music until recordings became widely avail
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To those conducted by Beecham, Pierre Monteux, Charles Munch, Herbert von Karajan and Otto Klemperer to more recent versions including those of Boulez, Marc Minkowski, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and François-Xavier Roth
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Added new material but did not change Berlioz's original text
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That it did not reach the level of the Symphonie fantastique; fifty years later Edward Sackville-West and Desmond Shawe-Taylor found it "romantic and picturesque
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In the second edition of Grove, Henry Hadow made this judgment:
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The work was presented as an opera in Italy, Germany, Britain, Russia and the US
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Died 1869-03-08.
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Berlioz received the news that his son had died in Havana of yellow fever
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Was the 33 Mélodies, collecting into one volume all his songs that he chose to preserve
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1864).
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Was elected to the Institut de France, an honour he had long sought, though he played down the importance he attached to it
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Liszt and his companion, Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, encouraged Berlioz's tentative conception of an opera based on the Aeneid
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In a revised version prepared by Liszt with Berlioz's approval and was moderately successful
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And 1853, conducting his own works and others'
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Was at the Great Exhibition in London as a member of an international committee judging musical instruments
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And first heard in 1855, when it was given in connection with the Exposition Universelle
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But not published until 1855, and some short pieces
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And 1843 he gave concerts in twelve German cities
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Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1839).
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But he learned little from the academics of the Paris Conservatoire
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Berlioz composed a Messe solennelle
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Berlioz graduated from medical school, after which he abandoned medicine, to the strong disapproval of his parents
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Born 1803-12-11.
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