Symphonie Fantastique Music Analysis
Symphonie Fantastique By Lorenz Erl G. Paez G9 Newton Symphonie fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un artiste … en cinq parties ( Fantastical Symphony: Episode in the Life of an Artist … in Five Sections ) Op . 14, is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is an important piece of the early Romantic period. The first performance was at the Paris Conservatoire on 5 December 1830. Franz Liszt made a piano transcription of the symphony in 1833. Leonard Bernstein described the symphony as the first musical expedition into psychedelia because of its hallucinatory and dream-like nature, and because history suggests Berlioz composed at least a portion of it under the influence of opium . According to Bernstein, "Berlioz tells it like it is. You take a trip, you wind up screaming at your own funeral. In 1831 Berlioz wrote a lesser-known sequel to the work, Lelio , for actor, soloist...