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	The Hector Berlioz Website - Devoted to Berlioz’s life and works
		Ode to Berlioz, by Camille Saint-Saëns (in French)
		We are both academics by profession, based in universities in Scotland, and share a common enthusiasm for Hector Berlioz and his achievements.
		Created in July 1997, and gradually expanded subsequently, the site is entirely devoted to the genius of Berlioz – his music, his writings, his career in France and abroad, and his contribution to musical history.
	www.hberlioz.com (1168 words)

	Essentials of Music - Composers
		Hector Berlioz was a notable exception to this rule.
		Berlioz was born to a well-to-do family and as a child learned flute and guitar and managed to teach himself the rudiments of harmony from his reading of textbooks.
		This was compounded as Berlioz saw the ideals of French Romanticism overtaken by the growing influence of the new German school led by Wagner and others.
	www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/berlioz.html (604 words)

	Hector Berlioz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Berlioz is said to have been innately romantic, experiencing emotions deeply from early childhood.
		Berlioz, residing in Rome at the time under a Prix de Rome scholarship, planned to ride back to Paris dressed as a chambermaid, kill Marie, her mother and her fiancé, and commit suicide.
		In 2003, the bicentenary of Berlioz's birth, a proposal was made to remove his remains to the Panthéon, but it was blocked by President Jacques Chirac in a political dispute over Berlioz's worthiness as a symbol of the glory of France in comparison to such figures as Andre Malraux, Jean Jaures, and Alexandre Dumas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hector_Berlioz (1116 words)

	MSN Encarta - Hector Berlioz
		In 1821 Berlioz was sent to Paris to follow in his father’s footsteps and receive training in medicine, but he spent his free time at the library of the Paris Conservatory, studying scores (printed music), and at the opera.
		Berlioz’s position in 19th-century music is that of an original and groundbreaking figure who directly influenced symphonic form and the use of the orchestra as well as musical aesthetics.
		Berlioz enlarged the size of the orchestra and called for many instruments not customarily used in orchestral music of his time—for example, bells, snare drums, piccolos, E-flat clarinets, and ophicleides (bass brass instruments).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578315/Hector_Berlioz.html (1437 words)

	Hector Berlioz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer best known for the Symphonie fantastique, first performed in 1830, and for his Grande Messe des morts (Requiem) of 1837, with its tremendous resources that include four antiphonal brass choirs.
		Berlioz was born in France at, between Lyon and Grenoble.
		Berlioz was horrified by the process of dissection and, despite his father's disapproval, he abandoned his career path in medicine to study music.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Hector_Berlioz (1122 words)

	classical music - andante - preview - hector berlioz
		Berlioz’s reputation as a composer of startling originality was by now confirmed and his progress in the musical world of Paris was not to be furthered by enforced removal to Italy.
		Berlioz described the experience with bitterness as being ‘stretched on the rack’, for it not only humiliated him as an artist, it also closed the door of the Opéra to him, except as the arranger of other men’s works, for the rest of his life.
		Berlioz wrote movingly of her and of the failure of their happiness in the Mémoires; he never forgot the impression she first made on him or the style of dramatic interpretation that coloured his own conception of Shakespeare.
	www.andante.com /profiles/Berlioz/berliozgrove.cfm (9988 words)

	Berlioz Callaghan
		Berlioz has a small scar on the back of his right leg from a dog bite when he was a child and he has a few faint scars on his right upper arm from a house fire.
		Berlioz has been playing for twelve years now and even the revelation that he was a wizard has not deterred him from his desire to go professional.
		Berlioz is quite close to his little sister, and misses her quite a bit during the school year.
	www.geocities.com /ladyalastrina/rpgchars/berlioz04.html (2191 words)

	The Symphony - Hector Berlioz
		Hector Berlioz was born in the French province of Isere in 1803.
		Berlioz completed the dramatic cantata La Damnation de Faust in 1846, but it was a failure in Paris.
		Structural Unity: Berlioz introduced the idea of an 'idee fixee', a single melody which unites the entire work, but is gradually transformed throughout the course of the symphony.
	library.thinkquest.org /22673/berlioz.html (835 words)

	Berlioz
		Berlioz was strongly influenced by men of literature, especially Shakespeare and Goethe, followed by Byron, Scott and other figures in the Romantic movement.
		Berlioz was concerned with the expressive potential of music, which he felt was greater than that of poetry or art.
		Even when Berlioz was depicting a witches' dance, he had to concentrate on purely musical matters such as rhythm, melodic shape, patterns of rhythm and melody, the plushness or astringency of the harmony and the special sounds of each instrument at his disposal.
	www.azstarnet.com /public/packages/reelbook/153-3994.htm (1256 words)

	Hector Berlioz Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hector Berlioz was born in 1803 to a doctor father and a staunch Catholic mother.
		In 1827, to make ends meet, Berlioz got a job as a chorus singer at a vaudeville theater as he was an excellent sight reader.
		Berlioz was only a promising young musician and Camille had bagged a rich older piano maker.
	www.8notes.com /school/history/berlioz.asp (1015 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Music \| Row mars Berlioz anniversary
		Born the son of a doctor in 1803 near Lyon, Berlioz at first studied medicine, but the nausea he felt at the first sight of blood meant he swiftly changed to music.
		He was one of the few great composers never to have mastered a musical instrument, but he is seen now as the man who picked up the baton of romanticism from Beethoven and later handed it on to Wagner.
		It was to redress this oversight that the committee led by Georges Hirsch, director of the Orchestre de Paris, launched the initiative to have Berlioz's body removed from Montmartre cemetery where he was buried in 1869 and brought across the river Seine to the Pantheon.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/2768351.stm (679 words)

	Internet Public Library: Music History 102
		Berlioz may well have been the first great composer to not be able to play a musical instrument, nor to have shown any musical talent at an early age.
		Berlioz' advances in this area contributed greatly to the growth and development of the modern symphony orchestra.
		Berlioz had seen the Irish actress Harriet Smithson perform in Shakespeare's Hamlet and had fallen passionately, even hysterically in love with her.
	www.ipl.org /div/mushist/rom/berlioz.htm (375 words)

	Hector Berlioz
		A lofty idealist with a leaping imagination, Berlioz was subject to violent emotional changes from enthusiasm to misery; only his sharp wit saved him from morbid self-pity over the disappointments in his private and professional life.
		Though Berlioz's compositional style has long been considered idiosyncratic, it can be seen to rely on an abundance of both technique and inspiration.
		Berlioz left perhaps his most indelible mark as an orchestrator, finding innumerable and subtle ways to combine and contrast instruments (both on stage and off), effectively emancipating the procedure of orchestration for generations of later composers.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/berlioz.html (657 words)

	NPR: Performance Today -- Berlioz Bicentennial (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Comité International Hector Berlioz, the official committee formed to organize the national celebration, had hoped to cap off the celebration by removing the composer's remains from their current resting place in the Montmartre cemetery and placing them in the legendary Panthéon of Paris.
		Berlioz would join such national heroes as Voltaire and Victor Hugo in the Panthéon's necropolis, which the committee felt would give the composer appropriate national recognition during his bicentennial year.
		Detractors of this plan claim that Berlioz's lukewarm sentiments towards the Republic should disqualify him from entering this shrine to republican ideals.
	www.npr.org /programs/pt/features/berlioz.html (275 words)

	Hector Berlioz - The unloved genius
		At the end of the Berlioz bicentennial year, little has shifted in the public estimation of this eternally unloved genius.
		Although Berlioz was treasured by Bizet and Messiaen, the mainstreamof French modernity from Debussy to Boulez preferred to mud wrestle with Wagner, bypassing the genius on their doorstep.
		Two centuries after his birth, Berlioz is not espoused by concertgoers with the confidence they attach to Brahms, whose revelations were minor by comparison.
	www.scena.org /columns/lebrecht/031210-NL-Berlioz.html (990 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hector Berlioz
		Young Berlioz soon changed the dissecting room for the library of the Conservatoire, where he sought to acquaint himself with the scores of the masters of music.
		It is the endeavour of composers of this school to express by means of music definite ideas and moods and even to relate definite events.
		Berlioz is one of the most striking examples of modern subjectivism, and the numerous works he has left behind—symphonies with and without chorus, operas, an oratorio, "The Childhood of Christ", songs, choruses, etc.—give us an idea of what he might have been had he remained faithful to Catholic ideals.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02495a.htm (475 words)

	Music of Hector Berlioz (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Berlioz was not a pianist, and although he composed reasonable piano accompaniments for his songs, his orchestral realisations are not “pianistic”.
		Berlioz was therefore forced to concentrate on symphonic, concert, and choral music, and to write newspaper reviews to support himself financially, eventually becoming embittered by the enforced servitude and failure to be accepted by the musical public of Paris.
		Berlioz was obliged to visit his family at La Côte-St-Andrè at the end of 1828 after several years in Paris, and took the opportunity to polish his work for publication as “Opus 1” upon his return to Paris in January 1829.
	www.carringbush.net /~pml/music/berlioz (3879 words)

	Berlioz Historical Brass : Performances
		Berlioz Historical Brass member Douglas Yeo performed the Proctor Serpent Concerto with Simon Proctor flying over from England to attend the event and to participate in a very well received pre-concert "conversation with the composer." This performance was scheduled in conjunction with the National Music Museum's "Beethoven and Berlioz" Festival.
		Berlioz Historical Brass [Jay Krush (ophicleide), Ben Peck (buccin), Douglas Yeo (serpent)] and King's Chapel Choir.
		Berlioz Historical Brass [Phil Humphries (ophicleide), Ben Peck (buccin), Douglas Yeo (serpent), Ron Haroutunian] and Gloriæ Dei Cantores of the Church of the Transfiguration in Orleans, Massachusetts.
	www.berliozhistoricalbrass.org /performance.htm (488 words)

	The Hector Berlioz Website - La Côte Saint-André (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Below you will find a listing of buildings and places associated with Berlioz and his family, which serves as a concise guide to the relevant locations and provides links to individual pages, each devoted to a particular location or building in La Côte, with further information as well as photographs and engravings to illustrate them.
		Hector Berlioz Museum Berlioz's parental home was turned to a museum after its last private owner (Madame Dumien) donated it in 1932 to the Association of the Friends of Berlioz, which later became the Association nationale Hector Berlioz.
		Place Hector Berlioz in a ceremony held in 1890 a replica of an original statue of Berlioz by Lenoir was erected here in the composer's honour.
	www.hberlioz.com /LaCote/BerliozLacote.html (1645 words)

	Berlioz (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Berlioz was extraordinarily skilled in writing, not to mention a sophisticated sense of humor to back up his taste.
		Berlioz became infatuated with her during a performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which she performed Ophelia's role (Paris, 1827).
		Later, Berlioz married her; but their marriage was doomed from the beginning, since she never gained fluency in French, nor he in English.
	www.unc.edu /home/thangle/links/berlioz.htm (319 words)

	French culture \| music \| Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ
		Berlioz drew his story from the second chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew, but he omitted many familiar passages and created some new elements.
		So Berlioz very often writes for both trumpets, which were natural instruments at that time, and cornets, which were valve instruments.
		The Orchestra of St. Luke's, America's foremost and most versatile chamber orchestra, is acclaimed for its mastery of a diverse repertoire spanning the Baroque to the contemporary.
	www.info-france-usa.org /culture/music/events/01berliozenfanceosldec.html (621 words)

	Berlioz
		The reader is left with a comprehensive record of Berlioz's view of the world and with a sense of having suffered his hardships and shared his triumphs: servitude and greatness indeed.
		This biography of composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) describes with unprecedented intimacy, affection, and respect the life of one of France's greatest artists.
		Volume II follows Berlioz's life from 1832 to his death in 1869, his most active years as a composer, conductor, and critic.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/8855.html (903 words)

	Berlioz' Faust (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Berlioz invented it to be able to insert his arrangement of the Rákóczy March into the work.
		In Berlioz' work the love between Faust and Margarite is solely the result of Mephistopheles' magic.
		Berlioz certainly was not as great at librettos as he was at music.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/har/faust.htm (1448 words)

	Berlioz (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Berlioz, Volume I, previously published only in Britain, is now available to American readers in a revised edition, together with the eagerly awaited, new Volume II.
		In researching Berlioz's life, Cairns has had access to unpublished family papers, and in Volume I he is able to portray all the people close to Berlioz in his boyhood, and to evoke a detailed picture of their lives in and around La Côte St.-André in the foothills of the French Alps.
		Berlioz 2003 Committee: Planning for the 200th anniversary of Berlioz's birth.
	ucpress.org /books/pages/8827.html (1242 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Music: Composition: Composers: B: Berlioz, Louis Hector (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Berlioz in Paris - A reconstruction of Berlioz's Paris, using original photos of and commentary on buildings associated with Berlioz.
		Berlioz, Louis-Hector - Biography noting his education and development, early instrumental skills and compositions, influences and education, major pieces, and a summary list of his works from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
		Berlioz Music Scores - Scores which may be both viewed and played on line as midi files.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/B/Berlioz,_Louis_Hector (632 words)

	Homepage for Mu123 - Hector Berlioz (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hector Berlioz was considered to be the father of French Romanticism in music.
		This homepage is the result of a project as part of a sacred music course, Mu 123, taught by Professor Thomas Neenan at the California Institute of Technology.
		The center of this project is Berlioz's major sacred work, The Requiem.
	www.ugcs.caltech.edu /~jclee/music/mu123.html (132 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Hector Berlioz
		Berlioz said he destroyed the score, but in fact he gave it to his friend Antoine Bessems in 1835 and this was found in Antwerp in 1991 by Frans Moors, an organist, and received its f.
		This work, Berlioz's masterpiece, was on too large a scale and efforts to have it staged at the Opéra failed.
		His extravagances in his scores, no longer very remarkable but ahead of their time, diverted critical attention, even among his admirers, from the classical purity of his melody and the Beethovenian grandeur of his command of dramatic contrasts.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/berlioz.html (719 words)

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