Search Results: Hector Berlioz

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was the leading French composer of Romantic music, best known for his innovative Symphonie fantastique and use of large-scale orchestras and choruses in works like The Trojans opera. Berlioz's innovative style brought...

Homer's Iliad describes the final year of the Trojan War, a legendary conflict between an alliance of Greek cities and the city of Troy in Anatolia. It was probably written in the 8th century BCE after a long oral tradition. The Greeks themselves...

A c. 1850 cartoon caricature by Anton Elfinge of the French composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). Berlioz used instruments and sounds innovatively in his work and this is here being parodied.

The Trojan War was fought between Greeks and the defenders of the city of Troy in Anatolia sometime in the late Bronze Age. The story has grabbed the imagination for millennia but a conflict between Mycenaeans and Hittites may well have occurred...

An 1832 portrait by Émile Signol of the French composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). ( Villa Medici, Rome)

An 1850 oil-on-canvas portrait by Gustave Courbet of the French composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

A photograph of the French composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). Taken in 1863 by Pierre Petit. (Gallica Digital Library)

The grave of the French composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) in the cemetery of Montmartre, Paris.

Franz Liszt (1811-1886) was a Hungarian composer of Romantic Music. Liszt first gained international fame as a piano virtuoso, an activity in which he was a pioneer, and then as a composer of piano works and symphonic poems, a form he created...

Sarpedon is a figure from ancient Greek mythology, a Lycian prince who was one of the principal heroes during the Trojan War and fought on the side of Troy. According to Homer's Iliad, he was the son of Zeus by Laodameia and the cousin of...