Berlioz
Berlioz refers to Hector Berlioz (1803–1869), French Romantic composer known for dramatic orchestral works like *Symphonie fantastique* and his influential treatise on orchestration.
His name sometimes stands in for Romantic-era musical ambition or orchestral innovation: The piece had a Berlioz-like grandeur.
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- idée fixePersistent dominating thought
- passionIntense emotional drive
- dramaticStrikingly expressive or sudden
- lyricismExpressive, melodic quality
emotion · expression · Shakespeare · Byron · Goethe · Virgil · autobiography · unrequited love
Masculine given name
Opera's written words
- grand operaFully sung dramatic spectacle
- VirgilClassical epic poet
- AeneidRoman founding epic
- CassandraIgnored prophet of doom
overture · aria · recitative · premiere · theatrical · staging · epic scale
France's chief city
- Second EmpireNapoleon III's French regime
- DelacroixFrench Romantic painter
- HugoScience fiction award
- DumasFrench adventure novelist
Design of measuring devices
- timbreSound's distinctive character
- percussionSound through impact
- English hornAlto-range double-reed woodwind
- bellsStruck metal sound-makers
woodwinds · strings · texture · dynamics · crescendo · fortissimo · pianissimo
programmatic
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- idée fixePersistent dominating thought
- passionIntense emotional drive
- dramaticStrikingly expressive or sudden
lyricism · emotion · expression · Shakespeare · Byron · Goethe · Virgil · autobiography · unrequited love · obsession
Hector
Masculine given name
libretto
Opera's written words
- grand operaFully sung dramatic spectacle
- VirgilClassical epic poet
- AeneidRoman founding epic
Cassandra · overture · aria · recitative · premiere · theatrical · staging · epic scale
Paris
France's chief city
- Second EmpireNapoleon III's French regime
- DelacroixFrench Romantic painter
- HugoScience fiction award
Dumas · Paganini · Liszt · Chopin · Schumann · Wagner · Beethoven
instrumentation
Design of measuring devices
- timbreSound's distinctive character
- percussionSound through impact
- English hornAlto-range double-reed woodwind
bells · woodwinds · strings · texture · dynamics · crescendo · fortissimo · pianissimo
- ComposersBach, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Haydn
- 1800s FiguresDarwin, Marx, Dickens, Beethoven, Napoleon
- European MusiciansBach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms
- Fictional CatsGarfield, Felix, Sylvester, Tom, Cheshire Cat
- French ComposersDebussy, Ravel, Saint-Saens, Couperin, Adam
- French LuminariesVictor Hugo, Emile Zola, Claude Monet, Louis Pasteur, Gustave Eiffel
BerliozChopin
Polish Romantic pianist-composer
Schubert · minimalism · Feldman · Debussy · chamber music