[HoosierHawk]

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[HoosierHawk]

Ping to First Sunday Music with Hector Berlioz. Enjoy!

[stripes1776]

Thanks for the link to Berlioz. I read read Jacques Barzun's biography of Berlioz a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it. Berlioz was one of the great romantic composers.

As the article mentions, Berlioz fell in love with a Shakespearean actress. Shakespeare's plays took Paris by storm in the 1830s. His future wife was one of the great stars of the stage. Learning English was the fashion so that people could read Shakespeare.

[MinuteGal]

Thanks. I especially love the portraits and photographs of the great composers when they're posted. I was thrilled to death when an actual photograph of Chopin was posted about a year or so ago!

I haven't listened to much Berlioz as he never caught my ear. However, I didn't like Richard Strauss at all until I gave some serious listening and study to his work.....and now I look forward to hearing just about all of his compositions.

I'll pursue the Berlioz links above tonight.....and see if he gets a 10 or a 5 with me.

He sure had a stormy adult life, that's for sure!

Leni