Hector Berlioz

Hector Berlioz expanded Romantic music through orchestral imagination, literary drama, and unusual formal scale. The composer from France wrote symphonic works, songs, sacred music, and opera, treating the orchestra as a dramatic protagonist. Symphonie fantastique, Harold en Italie, La damnation de Faust, and Les Troyens remain central to his reputation.

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