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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

Composer of the Week: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869): Episode 2: The Romantic Idealist

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Episode 2: The Romantic Idealist

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

The Romantic Idealist

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), The Romantic Idealist

Donald Macleod explores the music that resulted from Berlioz's romantic idealism.

Donald Macleod explores the music that resulted from Berlioz's romantic idealism, including his falling in love, precociously, at the age of 12.

"My whole life," Berlioz wrote, "has been one long ardent pursuit of an ideal which I created myself." In this programme, Donald Macleod explores the music that resulted from Berlioz's romantic idealism, including his falling in love, precociously, at the age of 12; and later, in what he called "the grand drama of my life," his overwhelming infatuation with the young Irish actress Harriet Smithson, an infatuation which would produce two of his genre-defying works, Symphonie Fantastique and Lélio, or the Return to Life.

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Donald Macleod explores the life and work of quintessential romantic, Hector Berlioz

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