Hector Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique

a) Who is your subject. When and where did they live.
b) What is their major contribution to music? (Why are they famous?)


E1. What is Romanticism? (It has many definitions, and is many things.)
E2. How does your subject fit into the world of Romanticism (their work, their life)
E3. Are there elements or aspects of your subject that are not romantic in nature?

1. What type of symphony is "Symphonie Fantastique"

Answers:

b)Hector Berlioz is my subject. He lived in 1855 at La Côte-Saint-AndréThe Coast-Saint-Andre).
a)He is famous for his conducting and composing.

E1.

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• impractical romantic ideals and attitudes
• a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization; "Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality"
• an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
  from:wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
• Romantic music is a musicological term referring to a particular period, theory, compositional practice, and canon in European music history, from about 1815 to 1910.
  from:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism_(music)
• Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution. ...
  from:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism
• Romanticism (; E-ISSN 1750-0192) is an academic journal dedicated to Romantic studies, focusing on the period 1750-1850. It is published three times a year by Edinburgh University Press.
  from:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism_(journal)
• A romantic quality, spirit or action
  from:en.wiktionary.org/wiki/romanticism
• 18th Century artistic and intellectual movement which stressed emotion, freedom and individual imagination
  from:en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Romanticism
• romanticistic - romantic: belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts; "romantic poetry"
  from:wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
• The Romantics are an American rock band from Detroit, Michigan. The band adopted the name "The Romantics" because they formed on Valentine's Day, 1977. ...
  from:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Romantics
• The Romantics (1999) is the debut novel of Pankaj Mishra, the author of Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India (1995), An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World (2004) and Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond (2006). ...
  from:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Romantics_(novel)
• A reaction against neoclassicism. This early 19th- century movement elevated the individual, the passions, and the inner life. It stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical correctness in art forms, and rebellion against social conventions.
  from:www.let.rug.nl/usa/lit/chap10.htm
• An art style which emphasizes the personal, emotional and dramatic through the use of exotic, literary or historical subject matter.
  from:www.progressiveart.com/art_terms.htm
• A movement in the 18th century in visual arts, literature and music, that reacted against NEO-CLASSICISM. It emphasized the imagination and emotions.
  from:www.nashville.gov/parthenon/dictionary.htm
• an intellectual and artistic movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Originating in Europe, where it was associated with Rousseau, Wordsworth, Goethe, and other artists and philosophers, the influence of Romanticism eventually spread to America, where it found adherents ...
  from:www.depaul.edu/~dsimpson/awtech/lexicon.html

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E2.
Hector Berlioz is a french composer, he is well known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande Messe des morts (Requiem).
E3.
Hector Berlioz was not a gineus like Wolfgang Mozart, he start to study music when he was 12. When he began writing small compositions and arrangements his dad disagreed and forbid him to play piano.

1. Symphonie Fantastique means Fantastic Symphony. Tt is a program symphony.

general statement: Hector Berlioz is a romance music composer.