Hector Berlioz
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Hector Berlioz 🇫🇷

Louis-Hector Berlioz (Known as "Berlioz")
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Born Dec 11, 1803 🇫🇷 La Côte-Saint-André, France
Passed Away Mar 08, 1869 Paris, France
Lifespan 65 years old
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Archival Overview

Radical French Romantic composer whose Symphonie fantastique and Treatise on Orchestration redefined the modern orchestra.

Biographical Record

Louis-Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer whose daring imagination, colossal orchestral forces, and pioneering programmatic concepts changed the course of orchestral music. Defying his father's wish for him to study medicine, Berlioz studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won the prestigious Prix de Rome.

His revolutionary Symphonie fantastique (1830), depicting the drug-induced hallucinations of an obsessive lover using a recurring musical theme (the idée fixe), stunned the European musical world. Berlioz was also the father of modern orchestration, publishing his influential Treatise on Instrumentation (1844), and conducting massive ensembles across Europe.

Key Life Milestones

1830

Symphonie fantastique

Premiered his groundbreaking psychedelic programme symphony in Paris, introducing the idée fixe technique.

1844

Treatise on Instrumentation

Published his seminal textbook codifying modern orchestral colors, extended techniques, and large-scale conducting.

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Final Resting Place

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Montmartre Cemetery
Paris, France
GPS: 48.8872, 2.3308
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