Hector Berlioz — more formally ... Berlioz is probably the most homemade composer we have. (He resembles Ives in this respect, or Ives resembles him.) “Vive la liberté!” ...

(Later Berlioz took up the guitar but, unusually for a composer, he never became proficient on any instrument.) At his father’s behest, he entered the school of medicine in Paris in 1821 in order to ...

Hector Berlioz’s music is most often heard at Davies ... had room enough for both that “new” piece — the composer’s “King Lear” Overture from 1831, which the orchestra was performing ...

A digital painting by Ethan Zhou portrays composer Hector Berlioz. The work is one of five pieces by Zhou that will accompany a performance of Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique” by Golden ...

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