“Symphonie Fantastique” Background “Symphonie Fantastique” is one of the Hector Berlioz great orchestra; through its movements, it relays the message of an artist’s self-destructive passion towards a woman. In “Symphonie Fantastique” vividly displays the artist’s various issues are including obsession, dreams, tantrums, in addition to moments of tenderness, suicidal visions, murder, ecstasy as well as despair. “Symphonie Fantastique” is a reflective self-portrait of Hector Berlioz. Berlioz was a great
The French composer Hector Berlioz once said, “Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down” (Brainyquotes). This quote would be poignant if it had not come from the man who composed an entire symphony in his head and refused to write it down. Hector Berlioz was a man plagued with the mind of an artist. An erratic man, Berlioz lived a life as whirling and exciting as his music. The romantic period of the arts (1850-1910) brought
The Symphonie Fantastique by Hector Berlioz written in 1830 and performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was a concerto like no other. This concert was conducted by Stephane Deneve, with solos from various instrument groups including the oboes, harps, and violins. Between the dreamy like feeling throughout and the feel of impending doom among other feeling throughout, I felt like parts of this was a high for this composer. As history has taught us, it is believed that Berlioz was under the influence