for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under conductor Eugene Goossens. It was inspired in part by a famous speech made earlier in the same ear where vice president Henry A. I couldn’t relate to this piece‚ it didn’t resonate with me. Berlioz “ Symphonie fantastique IV ( March to the scaffold) This piece reminds me of marching band at high school pep rally. The sound of the timpani also remindsof heavy footsteps of an army. The song starts quietly‚ with the volume getting louder progressively as
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Symphonie Fantastique 4th Movement Hector Berlioz The piece of music I have chosen to write about from the Romantic period is Hector Berlioz’s ‘Symphonie Fantastique‚’ and to focus on the 4th movement of the Symphony. It was composed in 1830 as programme music. The story behind this particular movement is that Berlioz has dreamt that he has killed the woman he loves and is now being marched to the guillotine to be killed in return for her murder. The piece starts off at a relatively slow pace
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Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique movement V Hector Berlioz‚ born on December 11th 1803 in Saint-André‚ France‚ was a renowned composer of romantic music. Berlioz was educated by his father who was a reputable physician. His father‚ Louis Berlioz also gave him music lessons when he was young but he was not well-trained until later in life. Berlioz was not a virtuoso‚ but he taught himself some musical techniques. Louis wanted his son to study medicine like he did. Hector Berlioz studied medicine in
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Assignment #1 Symphonie Fantastique Hector Berlioz was born in 1803 in La Cote St André‚ France. He discovered music when he was twelve and became an accomplished musician very quickly. Berlioz then moved to Paris in order to try and make a living as a musician. He was heavily influenced by the works of Beethoven because of their unique style. Rather than fitting in with the classical forms‚ Beethoven reinvented the symphony to allow for more emotional expression. Berlioz found inspiration
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Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is a remarkable representation of musical Romanticism for many reasons. First‚ it is profoundly influenced by literature. The story of the symphony is inspired from multiple literary sources‚ including Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Goethe’s Faust. In contrast to earlier symphonies‚ it follows an extramusical narrative devised by the composer‚ thus making it an early example of program symphony - an orchestral work in the form of a symphony
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Symphonie Fantastique: The Hopeless Romantic ’s Guide to Nineteenth Century Program Music 1 Inspired by the great philosophers‚ poets and storytellers of his day‚ Berlioz was one of the first composers who sought to merge drama and music into a single genre through the medium of his own creative and highly innovative soundscape. The result was a five movement orchestral masterpiece that is to this day still considered one of the most revolutionary works of the 19th century. The Symphonie
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Symphonie Fantastique‚ Hector Berlioz By carefully listening to the first movement of the symphonic work‚ this could be a work all on its own. Berlioz really did a fantastic job by incorporating all the sort of feelings a man in love gets by seeing the love of his life for the first time. “Reveries – Passions” is the title of the first movement‚ which depicts the feelings of tenderness‚ sad‚ crazy‚ and passionate‚ all through this one device‚ idee fixe. The idee fixe technique is used to bring out
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famous romantic composer‚ Hector Berlioz with his Symphonie fantastique is always considered as the hallmark of romantic composition. In alignment with the essential qualities of romanticism at his contemporaries in related fields‚ painting‚ literature and artistic style‚ his music is structured full of vivid and intense emotional expression. This characteristic of music and symphony can be seen in other composers during that time most of whom befriended Berlioz: Schumann‚ Liszt to name just a few
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Symphonie Fantastique is a symphony written by French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is quite possibly one of the most important and representative pieces of the Romantic period‚ and is still very popular to this day. The first performance took place at the Paris Conservatoire in December 1830. In many aspects Symphonie Fantastique and J.M.W. Turner’s “Slave Ship” are very similar. Romanticism was a movement during the mid to late 1700’s in Europe; this was around the time of the Industrial
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Hector Berlioz Berlioz was born in 1803 near Lyon‚ France. His father was a physician. Berlioz began his music studies at the age of twelve‚ learning to play the guitar and flute‚ but not piano. He went to Paris to study medicine‚ but eventually lost interest and began to pursue a career in music. In 1826‚ he began his studies at the Paris Conservatoire. He fell under the spell of Beethoven’s music. In 1830‚ after three failed attempts‚ he was finally awarded the Prix de Rome. The same year‚ his
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