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Hector Berlioz: French Romanticism
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Hector Berlioz passed away March 8, 1869. The French Institute sent a deputation, the band of the National Guard played selections from his Funeral Symphony; on the casket lay wreaths from the Saint Cécilia Society, from the youths of Hungary, from Russian nobles and from the town of Grenoble, his old home.
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Berlioz – the passionate, ardent, irrepressible genius of French Romanticism – left a rich and original oeuvre, which exerted a profound influence on nineteenth- century music. Berlioz developed a thoughtful affinity toward music and literature, as a child. Sent to
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Berlioz himself reportedly was a physically active conductor yet sought clear and moderate results, letting his music speak largely for itself. (Of course, given the amount of detail in his scores, it's hardly surprising that he saw little need to augment his own directions.) And yet, as Schumann noted in his review, “Form is the vessel of the spirit.” Indeed, notions of “authenticity” seem somewhat misplaced for so personal a work that bursts with the spirit of Romanticism.
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