The Blaze Talent Of Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz — 19th century French composer who holds a unique place in musical history, played a decisive role in the development of program music. Yet during his lifetime, Berlioz was an early romantic composer, just like the other composers who used orchestral instruments to represent heightened emotions with an inspiration from classical form and phrase structure.
Regardless of his experiments as a composer, his musical thinking about vitalizing freedom gave him a new prominent role to program music. From a vague between his passion in music and his family trade, he decided to follow his musical journey indeed. His antithetical compulsion influenced both his musical creativity and his performance.
Consider his development of program music as a key role in the romantic era, the ability to tell or retell the story with a deepness of music, adds another dimension to music itself. Program pieces rarely have classical form, following instead to a more poetic or episodic succession of ideas. Appropriately, the listener has the impression that something is being portrayed , even if he is not sure exactly what. And many times, the music may not make complete sense until the program is applied.
His fresh and early romanticism lead him to composed his best known work “Symphonie Fantastique”
As a fact of his masterpiece, Berlioz inspired by Romeo and Juliet and dedicated to his agony for Harriet Smithson.
It is interesting to note for all his spontaneous romanticism, but beyond all of this, his unique background led him to write innovative music.
“Love cannot give an idea of music, while music may give an idea of love” says Hector Berlioz towards his Memoirs. “Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one’s romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one’s imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.”
Externals:
- Sapio, Michael De. “Hector Berlioz and the Art of Musical Storytelling.” The Imaginative Conservative, 10 Dec. 2023, theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/12/hector-berlioz-art-musical-storytelling-michael-de-sapio.html
- “Hector Berlioz and His Critics on JSTOR.” Hector Berlioz and His Critics, www.jstor.org/stable/3355690. Accessed 10 Jan. 2024.
Eda Yildiz
