Symphonie Fantastique is an orchestral masterwork of gargantuan proportions. Composed in Paris in 1830, it set the mark for what a romantic symphony should be. With its overwhelming emotions and unabashed melodrama, it pours straight from the heart of its composer, Hector Berlioz. Like his friends and contemporaries, such as the painter Dellacqua or the novelist Victor Hugo, Berlioz set out to explore, proclaim, and glorify his own feelings; that’s what made him a true romantic. The romantics were
Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique Hector Berlioz wrote the Symphonie fantastique at the age of 27. He based the program on his own impassioned life and transferred his memoirs into his best- known program symphony. The story is about a love sick, depressed young artist, while in his despair poisons himself with opium. His beloved is represented throughout the symphony by the symbolic idee fixe. There are five movements throughout symphony. The program begins with the 1st movement: Reveries
Wright states in his text that Berlioz was ‘perhaps the most distinctive voice’ in Paris in the 1830s and 1840s. In summation, Berlioz had a profound affect in showing the public the capabilities of emotion being represented in music, and his Symphonie fantastique was a turning point in his career as his first full-scale masterpiece. He expressed more intense emotion than had been done before through programmatic elements, the idée fixe, new combinations of instruments, as well as instruments not previously
a multi-movement tone poem that tells a story though music. The symphonies of Haydn, and Mozart were pieces written with music that was not influenced by non-musical ideas. Other symphonies that have been written that are programmatic are Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz, Symphony no. 3 "Pastoral" by Vaughan Williams, and Metropolis Symphony by Michael Daugherty. This paper will show the similarities and differences between the programmatic symphonies of Beethoven, Berlioz, and Daugherty. Ludwig
Symphonie Fantastique is an astonishing program music piece done by Hector Berlioz in 1830. The symphony illustrates a lunatic story of a young musician going from a life with a lack of passion, to the death due to his passion towards a woman. The gap between reality and illusion has become blurred as the music keeps changing throughout the work, with Berlioz’s usage of different techniques such as word-painting and the arrangement of various instruments that made this symphony looks almost like
The Catholic Church has always played a large role in the growth of music, and has led to some of its most important developments. One such musical development to come from the Church is the chant, a unison song with melodies to accompany different prayers and texts of the church. Perhaps one of the most memorable chants of the Catholic Church is the Dies irae, a Gregorian chant that has been performed for many centuries. The text of it is attributed to Thomas of Celano, who most likely based
Concert Attendance Report by Sharak Gangei (#925766) Event: Oc Can you Play with Us Who: Conductor Carl St. Clair / Pacific Symphony and community musicians. Where: Segerstrom Concert Hall When: 7:00 P.M. May 12, 2014. As the concert started, the conductor came out and immediately instructed the musicians to begin playing. This was not the beginning of the Symphony, however, it was a warm up. I didn’t know this would happen. The orchestra had already rehearsed for several days and were tuning their
Art has always been a way in which humans have shared stories with one another. From the ancient stone age cave drawings chronicling great hunts to modern contemporary paintings such as that of Francis Bacon’s, depicting the turmoil and grief suffered by the troubled mind through the grotesque and haunting creatures that reside within his paintings, us humans have always found a way to describe the world around us and the fascinating and often disturbing stories that lurk around each dark corner
describes his obsession, with this woman he was self-destructive. Most orchestra music is based off of classical western music but Symphonie Fantastique is a love story. He had created his music that was his and no one else he is known for being original, although Beethoven had some influence on Berlioz’s work but like Berlioz, Beethoven had also created his own music. Symphonie Fantastique’s is forty-five-minute-long piece that has five different movements in it. The piece is called an idee fixe; this
Music is a very powerful tool. It has the power to bring happiness or sorrow. It can stir up old memories that someone has forgotten. In Berlioz’s case he uses one of his most famous pieces, Symphonie Fantastique to tell a story. Berlioz combines the use of instrumentation, rhythm and dynamics in a stunningly effective way that conveys to the listener a tragic tale of an artist, whose true love didn’t reciprocate his feelings leading him down a path of self destruction. The first tool Berlioz employs
Beethoven’s third symphony when he called Eroica it took Beethoven three years to write this piece” (3:00). Berlioz was a french composer, and conductor in the Romantic period. His first and most famous symphony that he composed was the Symphonie fantastique. The Symphonie fantastique was according to Fiero who
Berlioz was a French composer his ideals of the 19th century Romanticism in musical creations such as “Symphonie Fantastique” and “La Damnation De Faust”. His father wanted him to be in the medical field he turned his back to that to pursue his musical career. In 1826, Berlioz enrolled at the Paris Conservatoire. Where he started his music career. He became successful in 1830 with “Symphonie Fantastique”. Berlioz was a huge contributor to the modern orchestra with one of his greatest works, “Treatise
The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra preformed Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantasique, in 2001 at the St. Irene church in Turkey. Saint Irene’s interior is made up of bricks and stones that gives the church a rustic appearance. Behind the Orchestra were immense windows with horizontal and vertical lines that created dainty squares. The windows played a considerable role in the concert because the natural lighting highlighted each performer. Also, the classic beige columns stood tall and created arches
There are quite a few differences between Classical and Romantic music; these two types of music are from two different time periods (and that is probably the most obvious reason why they are different from each other). The Classical period in music lasted from about 1730 until 1815. This was the time of composers such as: Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Domenico Scarlatti, and “Papa” Joseph Haydn, among others. The Classical period of music was a time in
terrified by it whilst simultaneously enthralled; dissuaded yet inspired. Many of histories literary masters and great composers derived profound inspiration from the ethereal. Danse Macarbre by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns and Symphony Fantastique by Hector Berlioz are two such compositions that revolve around the central concept of the supernatural. The pieces contrast in their musical representation and programmatic portrayal of death and the supernatural. Where as March to the Scaffold
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another woman before he went off to Rome to work (the other woman, Marie, married someone else while he was gone). Berlioz wrote several works during his sojourn in Rome, but the one that won him the most recognition was a program symphony, Symphonie fantastique. Berlioz used this symphony to express his feelings about Harriet Smithson. The symphony tells the story of a young poet who has taken an overdose of drugs and has a series of dreams about his beloved. The beloved is represented by a
Program Music Do you ever just close your eyes and listen to music? If so, there is a good chance the music will cause you to experience a range of emotions and envision scenes based on what you are hearing. Even when there are no words, you can feel the image of the music. For example, when listening to Spring, from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi, you can hear the water flowing and the birds chirping. This is what composers call program music. It is instrumental music that can lead you to visualize
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At one point in the study of the Romantic period of music, we come upon the first of several apparently opposing conditions that plague all attempts to grasp the meaning of Romantic as applied to the music of the 19th century. This opposition involved the relation between music and words. If instrumental music is the perfect Romantic art, why is it acknowledged that the great masters of the symphony, the highest form of instrumental music, were not Romantic composers, but were the Classical