berlioz

Question 1

dates

Answer 1

1803-1869

Question 2

family background

Answer 2

• father was a physician

Question 3

education

Answer 3

• began music studies at age twelve-guitar and flute
• studied medicine in Paris, lost interest. parents were disappointed.
• began. formal studies at the Paris conservatoire
• admirer of Beethoven
• after three failed attempts, won the Prix de Rome, highest honour awarded to composition students. Required to live and study in Rome

Question 4

career launched with the premiere of _________

Answer 4

symphonie fantastique

Question 5

met ________ and began an important friendship that would last for decades

Answer 5

franz liszt

Question 6

married shakespearean actress +_________ the inspiration for symphonie fantastique. They had a son

Answer 6

harriet smithson

Question 7

successful career as a _______

Answer 7

conductor

Question 8

prolific_____, ______, and ______

Answer 8

writer, critic and author

Question 9

awarded the ______

Answer 9

legion d’honneur, highest decoration in france

Question 10

separated with Harriet and got with

Answer 10

Marie Recio

Question 11

Died ___________ buried with both wives in Montmartre cemetery

Answer 11

march 8 1869

Question 12

Musical style and contributions

Answer 12

• individual and iconoclastic, non pianist, freely explored orchestral writing on his own terms
• reader
• influenced by Beethoven
• original approach to orchestration
• expanded size and configuration of the orchestra
• preferred large scale forms, wrote few small works
• embraced programmatic writing
• with Wagner and Liszt, advocated music of the future, modern aesthetic embracing progressive chromatic harmony, thematic transformation and cyclical forms.

Question 13

genres

Answer 13

program symphonies, concert overtures, orchestral with voice, operas, choral, oratorio