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  The Damnation of Faust

  La damnation de Faust (English: The Damnation of Faust) is a work for orchestra, voices, and chorus written by Hector Berlioz (he called it a "légende dramatique"). Berlioz read Goethe's Faust Part One in 1828, in Gérard de Nerval's translation; "this marvelous book fascinated me from the first",...
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  Les Troyens

  Les Troyens (in English: The Trojans) is a French opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz. The libretto was written by Berlioz himself, based on Virgil's epic poem The Aeneid. Written between 1856 and 1858, Les Troyens was Berlioz's largest and most ambitious work, the summation of his entire artistic...
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  Béatrice et Bénédict

  Béatrice et Bénédict (Beatrice and Benedict) is a comic opera in two acts by Hector Berlioz. The French libretto was written by Berlioz himself, based loosely on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. It was first performed at the Theater der Stadt, Baden-Baden on August 9, 1862. Berlioz completed...
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  Benvenuto Cellini

  Benvenuto Cellini is an opera in two acts with music by Hector Berlioz and libretto by Léon de Wailly and Auguste Barbier. It was the first of Berlioz's three operas. The story is loosely based on the memoirs of the Florentine sculptor Benvenuto Cellini. The opera is technically very challenging...
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  Les francs-juges

  Les francs-juges is the title of an unfinished opera by the French composer Hector Berlioz written to a libretto by his friend Humbert Ferrand in 1826. The opera itself was abandoned by Berlioz, who destroyed most of the music. He did, however, retain the overture which has become a popular concert...

• Les nuits d'été

  Les nuits d'été, op. 7 (Summer Nights) is a song cycle by the French composer Hector Berlioz. It is a setting of six poems by Théophile Gautier. The collection was completed in 1841, and initially composed for either baritone, contralto, or mezzo-soprano, and piano. The song cycle has since been...

• Harold en Italie

  Harold en Italie (English: Harold in Italy, Symphony with Viola obbligato), Op. 16, is Hector Berlioz' second symphony, written in 1834. Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840) encouraged Berlioz (1803-1869) to write Harold en Italie. The two first met after a concert of Berlioz’s works conducted by Narcisse...

• Roméo et Juliette

  Roméo et Juliette is a "symphonie dramatique", a large scale choral symphony by French composer Hector Berlioz. The libretto was written by Émile Deschamps and the completed work was assigned the catalogue numbers Op. 17 and H.79. It is based on Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet; it is regarded...

• Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale

  Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale (English: Grand Funeral and Triumphal Symphony), Op. 15, is the fourth and last symphony by the French composer Hector Berlioz, first performed on 28 July 1840 in Paris. The symphony was a commission by the French government which wanted to celebrate the tenth...

• Te Deum

  The Te Deum (Op. 22 / H.118) by Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) was completed in 1849. It, like the earlier and more famous Grande Messe des Morts, is one of Berlioz's "architectural" works. Whilst the orchestral forces required for the Te Deum are by no means as titanic as that of the Requiem, the...