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Louis- Hector Berlioz A French Romantic Composer 1803-1869

Louis- Hector Berlioz A French Romantic Composer 1803-1869. Created by: Valerie Quintana. Biography . Born Family Early Life. Biography . Early studies Shakespeare Harriet Smithson 1833. Biography . Most Famous Work “ Symphonie Fantastique ” Married in 1833

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Louis- Hector Berlioz A French Romantic Composer 1803-1869

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  1. Louis- Hector BerliozA French Romantic Composer 1803-1869 Created by: Valerie Quintana

  2. Biography • Born • Family • Early Life

  3. Biography • Early studies • Shakespeare • Harriet Smithson 1833

  4. Biography • Most Famous Work “SymphonieFantastique” • Married in 1833 • Niccolo Paganini – “Harold en Italy” • “Grande Messe Des Morts” -1837 • “Romeo et Juliette”- 1839

  5. Biography • A son is born in 1834 • Tragic Marriage • “La damnation de Faust”- a failure in Paris • “TeDuem” -1849 • “L’enfance Du Christ” 1854 • “Les Troyens” -1856 • “Beatrice et Benedict”-1862

  6. Biography • Sons death • Died -1869

  7. Composition History “SymphonieFantasique” Movement 1 Movement 2

  8. Composition History Movement 3 Movement 4

  9. Composition History Movement 5 Aftermath

  10. “WithSymphoniefantastique, Berlioz stepped into his artistic maturity. The lovesick teenager had become the Artist who had won the heart of his fixation.”

  11. Listening Guide- Symphonic Fantasique 1:45- The rhythm changes and the music gets livelier with the strings. Like for the protagonist is madly in love and then feeling so much at once to the point where it gets out of hand. • 0:00 Introduction- Slow tempo of longing. Melody is carried by the violins and the flute. Introduces the fixed idea theme of the protagonist. Form of a sonata style. • 0:33- The tempo then describes the lovesick protagonist heartache and despair. • 0:40- The rhythm changes to a sad and uneasy feeling.

  12. Listening Guide • 2:58- the music has many mixed textures of the moods and visions of the protagonist. This is the part that is said where the protagonist is intoxicated with the opium. • 5:22- The orchestra burst for the protagonist is remembering the moment he first saw his beloved. Allegro

  13. Listening Guide • 6:46- The theme move away from the C major to a G major. It’s not a new them just an add on. • 8:38- The strings darken the harmony of the Idee Fixe ascending. The woodwinds form a sigh like fall. 8:45- the timber changes for the raging feelings of the protagonist. 9:00 Pulsing theme of the strings with rising phrases. Recapitulation 9:52 Strings pulse like a heartbeat. Eight note phrases, repeated and ascending again becoming more passionate.

  14. Listening Guide 11:30- it turn to a dark texture and grows darker. 11:50 the oboes create and errie feeling of their version of the Idee Fixe, it gets more nervous and then dies away. 12:10- the flute to does the yearning but then dies. 12:25- The flute ascends towards a climactic version of the Idee Fixe. • 14:50 the ending has a religious mood to it. • 15:31- A defeated end

  15. Listening Guide • The Second Movement- A Ball • 0:00- the melody give an excitement for what’s about to happen with the lower strings, bass and cellos. • 1:10 the flute and the clarinet begin to ascend. • 1:17- the descending of the strings. • 2:00- The rhythm descends as to where the protagonist sees his beloved among the people.

  16. Listening Guide • 2:10 the Idee Fixe from the first movement is played four times combined with the waltz music. • 2:50- the flute and the clarinet play together • 3:00- is a rhythm of panic of the protagonist • 3:18 harps enter, but the main melody is in the violins, violas and cellos. • 3:28- the texture becomes more of a richly sounding orchestra.

  17. Listening Guide • 4:30 the melody becomes livelier with the strings. • 4:50 the music builds a texture of joy. • 5:40- the waltz burst that the protagonist has come back to reality. • 6:00- texture creates the feeling of the room and the rush of feelings of the protagonist alone with the crowd for he has lost sight of his beloved among the crowd.

  18. Work Cited: • http://www.geneall.net/U/img_people.php?show=h • http://www.classical.net/music/books/fiction.php • http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/furness/image.html?id=FURNESS_ft_pbe800_1_s • http://www.rugusavay.com/hector-berlioz-quotes/ • http://www.musicwithease.com/berlioz-pictures.html • http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/feb/09/forgotten-berlioz-romeo-et-juliette

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