Hector Berlioz

French Romantic composer

1803 CE to 1869 CE

Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) is a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts (Requiem).

Berlioz makes significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation.

He specifies huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducts several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians He also composed around 50 songs.

His influence is critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler and many others.

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