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	If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On...
		Berlioz was inspired to compose his Symphonie Fantastique by his unrequited love for Irish actress Harriet Smithson, celebrated in Paris for her Shakespearean acting.
		Smithson married him a few months later despite the fierce opposition of their parents.
		Harriet was, at that time, crippled by an accident and financially ruined but, as Berlioz exulted, "she was mine.
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm3-5/sm3-5love-eng.htm (1172 words)

	Obsession Fantastique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Harriet Smithson, celebrated Irish Shakespearean actress, was performing in Paris; for him it was the beginning of an obsession, which culminated in his most famous work, the Symphonie Fantastique.
		Harriet was born in Ennis, Ireland in 1800, into a theatrical family; her father was a theatre manager and her mother was an actress.
		Harriet’s stage career was finished; she had tried, and failed, to run her own theatre company, her lack of French contributing to its collapse.
	www.lorrainemace.free-online.co.uk /of.html (1267 words)

	BERLIOZ - David Cairns - Penguin UK
		Harriet Smithson's presence in the Conservative Hall on the afternoon of 9 December 1832 set the seal on one of the high sates of the Romantic calendar.
		When Berlioz was not there and Harriet was not at the theatre, she kept up a barrage of waspish comments, dinning into her the reasons why such a match was impossible and assuring her that Berlioz was actually mad; someone had written from London saying that it was a fact and all Paris knew it.
		Harriet was equally insistent that he must do it, and to his delight "showed half-measures and, where the interest of art or the reputation of an artist was at stake, bold to the point of recklessness in the face of penury and privation".
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140287272,00.html?sym=EXC (11229 words)

	Clare People: Harriet Smithson Berlioz
		Harriet Smithson was born in Ennis, in 1800.
		Harriet took up acting as a result of her fathers ill-health and made her first appearance on stage at the Cron Street Theatre in Dublin.
		However some years later, the marriage between Harriet and her husband became strained, largely due to Harriet’s failure as an actress and her jealousy of her husband’s success and his popularity with the women he met in the course of his work.
	www.clarelibrary.ie /eolas/coclare/people/berlioz.htm (360 words)

	Irish Emigrant - News and jobs for the global Irish community
		Harriet took up acting as a result of her father's ill health and she first appeared in the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, in 1815 playing Lady Teazle in Sheridan's School for Scandal.
		Harriet's career was failing; she was in financial difficulty and more inclined to develop a friendly and closer relationship.
		Some years later, the marriage between Harriet and her husband became strained, largely due to Harriet's failure as an actress and jealousy of her husband's success and his popularity with the women he met in the course of his work.
	www.emigrant.ie /article.asp?iCategoryID=399&iArticleID=38450 (1682 words)

	Harriet Smithson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harriet Smithson (1800 - 1854) was the first wife of Hector Berlioz and the inspiration for his Symphonie Fantastique.
		He first discovered her at the Odeon performing the roles of Juliet and Ophelia and immediately fell in love with her, sending her mail despite their never having met.
		Luis Berlioz, the only child of Hector and Harriet, was born on 14 August 1834.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harriet_Smithson (220 words)

	Hector Berlioz
		An engagement with Marie Moke, after Smithson had rejected him at first, was broken off when Moke's mother married her off to the the piano maker Pleyel.
		Hector Berlioz is buried in the Cimetiere de Montmartre with his two wives, Harriet Smithson (died 1854) and Marie Recio (died 1862).
		In 2003, the bicentennary of his 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 as such figures as Andre Malraux, Jean Jaures and Alexandre Dumas.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/h/he/hector_berlioz.html (790 words)

	Eureka Street -
		Harriet Smithson, the Shakespearean actress and wife of the romantic composer Hector Berlioz.
		Beautifully written, Balint’s novel has captured well the life of the Irish actress Harriet Smithson and in particular gives the reader a vivid sense of what it must have been like to be a woman of the stage in 19th-century England and France.
		Harriet Smithson may have been the muse who inspired Berlioz’s most celebrated symphony but she herself dies in obscurity and misery.
	www.eurekastreet.com.au /articles/0410books.html (1613 words)

	Books \| Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness by David Cairns
		Harriet Smithson's presence in the Conservatoire Hall on the afternoon of 9 December 1832 set the seal on one of the high dates of the Romantic calendar.
		From that moment "she felt the room reel about her; she heard no more, but sat in a dream, and at the end went home like a sleepwalker, hardly aware of what was happening".
		Berlioz did not break the news to his father until the beginning of February, nearly eight weeks after he had begun courting Harriet; but Nancy's reply to an earlier letter in which he opened his heart to her (as in the old days) gave a taste of what the reaction would be.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3954743-100528,00.html (991 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / Sturm und drama on the London stage and beyond
		Harriet Smithson, born in 1800 in western Ireland to theatrical parents and raised by the local priest, conquers the London stage in 1827 with her performance of Ophelia and repeats her triumph in Paris, where she finally settles.
		Harriet also inflames young Hector Berlioz, inspires his Symphonie Fantastique, and marries him after a seven-year courtship that reaches its crescendo when Berlioz tries to kill himself in Harriet's drawing room in front of her family.
		Where Donoghue is showy, Balint is modest, concentrating on Harriet, on her art, and on a lifetime's accumulated grief.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2004/10/17/sturm_und_drama_on_the_london_stage_and_beyond?pg=2 (476 words)

	Berlioz
		After much planning and saving up, he gave a concert to show Harriet that he was a also an artist, only she never heard anything of it.
		Harriet's career was failing and she was in financial hardship so the next day she gave permission for Berlioz to meet her.
		Harriet's acting career had failed, her health and beauty were fading.
	www.lisztworks.com /texts/berlioz.shtml (950 words)

	Music of 19th Centruy Paris
		Harriet was unfamiliar with his work, and their friendship did not begin until years later.
		He recontacted Harriet and invited her to his concert of Symphonie Fantastique and Lélio.
		One year after, Berlioz was unable to accept the events of Harriet's life and found a mistress, Marie Recio, who was an opera singer.
	gallery.sjsu.edu /paris/music/overview/berlioz.html (449 words)

	A shining actress in her own soft light - Reviews - www.theage.com.au
		Yes, Harriet happened to be an actress, a profession both admired and reviled at the turn of the century, when respectable women did not work at all, let alone paint their faces in garish colours and fraternise with disreputable men.
		While Harriet painstakingly learns the art of being someone else, she wonders whether there would be any offers of marriage to free her from her dependence on the stage and to offer support to her widowed mother and crippled sister.
		There is a wealth of research in this imaginative recreation of Harriet Smithson and her theatrical life, with interesting details about the acting conventions of the day (there was heavy emphasis on deportment, physical movement and gesticulations) and about the politics and rivalries of the extended family of stage folk.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/09/10/1094789674732.html (674 words)

	Barbara's Bookstore - Ophelia's Fan
		Irish actress Harriet Smithson, inspiration for Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, is also the muse for this mesmerizing novel.
		Born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1800, Harriet is left in the care of the elderly priest Father Barrett, and is brought up on Lamb's Shakespeare, lime-sherbet sweets, and prayer.
		In Ophelia's Fan, Balint re-creates the texture and breadth of the nineteenth century and brings alive Harriet Smithson—the actress and the woman, her roles and her loves.
	www.barbarasbookstore.com /Books/OpheliasFan.htm (232 words)

	Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		And of course, they were struck by Smithson's pantomime and the much alluded to "naturalness" of her gestures.
		The editor of Berlioz's memoirs adds in a footnote that Berlioz took night classes in English in 1828, and that he became a fluent reader and tolerable speaker of English.
		It is notable though that Harriet Smithson apparently knew no French - or if she did, it was sketchy at best.
	www.uaf.edu /english/faculty/reilly/NCHCproject/Language.htm (325 words)

	Reading Group Guide: Anya
		Harriet’s parents make the seemingly unconventional decision to leave her with Father Barrett, an elderly Catholic priest, to raise.
		Harriet’s family is Protestant and County Clare is heavily Catholic, particularly in Ennis, where Harriet grows up.
		Harriet finds that she can use her natural Irish accent when on the stage in Paris, which she cannot do when in England.
	www.wwnorton.com /rgguides/opheliasfanrgg.htm (869 words)

	Ophelia's Fan -- book review
		Born in 1800 in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, Smithson, at the request of her actor father, is raised from childhood by an Episcopalian priest and given all the advantages of education so that she might better herself and the fortunes of her family.
		Thanks to the efforts of the Reverend, Harriet is saved from a life of poverty, but at a certain cost: she never really knows her parents or siblings as a child would growing up in the home, having only the occasional visit.
		Harriet's mother, crippled sister, and brother have long existed in dire straights on the farthest edges of poverty, meeting the daily demands of a meager existence.
	www.curledup.com /ophelias.htm (558 words)

	Cobb Symphony Orchestra: The Conductor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The work is completely programmatic and describes a dream that Berioz has in which he meets Harriet Smithson in five different settings.
		Smithson is always represented in the work by an idée fixe, or a fixed idea that is heard in each of the movements.
		The scene is meant to represent a calming effect on Berlioz, which is again interrupted by the arrival of Harriet Smithson and the fixed idea.
	www.cobbsymphony.com /programnotes-100105.html (1240 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / Short Takes
		Harriet Smithson, born in Ireland in 1800, became a great English actress on the French stage.
		Harriet never captures a reader's attention, and thus it is hard to understand how she captured Berlioz's.
		Interspersed with Harriet's chronological history are her personal interpretations of the great dramatic parts she played: Juliet, Desdemona, Ophelia.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2004/09/19/short_takes_boston_globe?mode=PF (401 words)

	Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Berlioz was attracted to Shakespeare and a prominent actress, Harriet Smithson, whom he idolized and courted.
		Unfortunately, his works were not received with enthusiasm and he received little recognition in his native France, but in the rest of Europe his works were hailed as "modern" and he was acknowledged as one of the leading "modern" conductors.
		The Symphonie Fantastique is an autobiographical work, which embodies the supreme love of his life, Harriet Smithson, who became the theme, or idée fixe of the work.
	www.galvestonsymphony.org /composers/Berloiz_SymphoneFantastique.html (480 words)

	Wikinfo \| Hector Berlioz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Several times his affections were unrequited: his love for the Irish Shakespearean actress Harriet Smithson was the inspiration for his Symphonie Fantastique.
		He planned to murder Marie Moke, another of his loves, and then commit suicide, after he heard that she was to marry the piano maker Pleyel.
		Hector Berlioz is buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre with his two wives, Harriet Smithson (died 1854) and Marie Recio (died 1862).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Hector_Berlioz (805 words)

	The Hector Berlioz Website - Berlioz Photos and Portraits 6
		Berlioz first saw Harriet Smithson in September 1827 at the Théâtre de l’Odéon playing in Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet, in the roles of Ophelia and Juliet respectively.
		Berlioz and Miss Smithson married on 3 October 1833 at the British Embassy in Paris.
		Both Marie and Harriet are buried with Berlioz at the Montmartre Cemetery.
	www.hberlioz.com /Photos/BerliozPhotos6.html (617 words)

	MUSI 4350
		Among the cast were the well-known British actors Edmund Kean and Charles Kemble, and a young actress named Harriet Smithson.
		Harriet was persuaded to attend the the December 9, 1832 performance; she apparently attended without knowing the identity of the composer or the program of the pieces.
		Smithson and Berlioz met the day after, and in October 1833 they were married.
	www.aug.edu /~cshotwel/4350.Programsymphony.htm (558 words)

	Symphonie Fantastique
		Hector Berlioz's musical embodiment of the supreme love of his life, Harriet Smithson, was the "idee fixe" theme of the autobiographical Symphonie Fantastique.
		On September 11, 1827, Hector Berlioz attended a performance of Hamlet at the Odeon in which the Irish-born actress Harriet Smithson performed the role of Ophelia.
		Artist that he was, Berlioz found a way to channel the enormous emotional upheaval of l'affaire Smithson into something he could control--a "fantastic symphony" that took as its subject the experiences of a young musician in love.
	members.aol.com /fausttiger/fantastique.html (765 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz: Books: Peter Raby (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		by Peter Raby (Author) "Harriet Smithson is known today because in 1827 she chanced to play Ophelia and Juliet in a season of English theatre in Paris; Hector Berlioz..." (more)
		Holding all together is the complex figure of Harriet - a talented actress, and who for a brief but crucial period in French cultural history became a symbol and an ideal of the new, Romantic spirit.
		Harriet Smithson is known today because in 1827 she chanced to play Ophelia and Juliet in a season of English theatre in Paris; Hector Berlioz was present, fell in love with the Shakespearean image, and pursued it in his life and in his music. Read the first page
	www.amazon.co.uk /Fair-Ophelia-Harriet-Smithson-Berlioz/dp/0521545803 (365 words)

	April 2002
		And so it happened that this medical school drop out, this one-time vaudeville chorus singer, this Shakespearan fan, this inventor of the ill-marketed Goat Blender came to fall hopelessly in love with a one Harriet Smithson, famous English-Irish actress and gold digger extraordinaire.
		Unable to make her acquaintance, Berlioz wrote a stunningly original symphony in the midst of the 1830 French revolution, finishing it while stray bullets imbedded themselves in the wall outside his window, taking up residence and eventually demanding better plumbing and Twix bars in the laundry room vending machine.
		Harriet Smithson was tricked into attending the premier of this piece and by reading the program notes she deduced that the symphony was about her.
	classicalgas.tripod.com /may02.htm (830 words)

	Harriet Smithson Information
		Henrietta Constance (Harriet) Smithson (1800 - March 3 1854) was an Irish actress, the first wife of Hector Berlioz, and the inspiration for his Symphonie Fantastique.
		A benefit was given her, but she had the mortification of seeing a rival applauded when she herself was coldly received.
		Luis Berlioz, the only child of Hector and Harriet, was born on 14 August 1834.
	www.bookrags.com /Henrietta_Constance_Smithson (326 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Piece Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He eventually gave up on Smithson (whom he referred to as "his Juliet") and was engaged to be married to Camille Moke, a young pianist.
		One of these concerts was attended by Harriet Smithson, whom he finally met.
		(A cynic might point out that Smithson was deeply in debt at the time and her career was seemingly on the decline.
	www.laphil.org /resources/piece_detail.cfm?id=293 (469 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Piece Detail
		He eventually gave up on Smithson (whom he referred to as "his Juliet") and was engaged to be married to Camille Moke, a young pianist.
		One of these concerts was attended by Harriet Smithson, whom he finally met.
		(A cynic might point out that Smithson was deeply in debt at the time and her career was seemingly on the decline.
	www.laphil.com /resources/piece_detail.cfm?id=293 (469 words)

	Ophelia's Fan (Main Page)
		Irish actress Harriet Smithson, inspiration for Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, is also the muse for this mesmerizing novel.
		Christine Balint reimagines the bittersweet life of Harriet Smithson, the tragedienne who brought Shakespeare to the French.
		Born in County Clare, Ireland, in 1800, Harriet is left in the care of the elderly priest Father Barrett, and is brought up on Lamb's Shakespeare, lime-sherbet sweets, and prayer.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/spring04/005925.htm (248 words)

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