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The Berlioz Revolution
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 11th May 2026No composer embodied the 19th-century romantic movement as did Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). Everything about him seemed excessive: his passions, his literary imagination, his orchestral ambitions, his loves, hatreds, and disappointments. He was one of the great revolutionaries of nineteenth-century music, yet during much of his life he was misunderstood in his own country and forced…
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