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Hector Berlioz
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During the years 1856-1858 Berlioz worked on his masterpiece, the opera Les Troyens, based on Virgil's epic. Between 1861 and 1862 he wrote his last opera, Béatrice et Bénédict, based on Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing, which he conducted at a festival at Baden-Baden, although ill and distraught over the sudden death of his second wife.
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