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Placido Domingo, The Chicago Symphony Orchesta and Chorus, Daniel Barenboim: Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique - La Marseillaise

Read "Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique - La Marseillaise" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


There was no one man in the French Romantic Movement more hot-blooded than composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). Proficient in no particular instrument, Berlioz's talent lay in composition, arrangement, and conducting. The entire orchestra was his instrument. Learned, erudite, and all around sanguine wild man, Berlioz existed in the rarefied company of other great Romanticists including Liszt, Wagner, Paganini, Chopin and Schumann. Berlioz's most noted composition was his five-movement symphony Symphonie Fantastique, composed and premiered in 1830. The ...

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