Hector Berlioz

To the concert-goer the name Hector Berlioz calls up a series of vast and magnificent whirlwinds of vocal and orchestral sonority, the thoughts of scores that sound and look imposingly complex to the eyes and ears of both the educated and uneducated in the composer's art.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

But now, triumphantly, Terry Gilliam, the sole American member of Monty Python's Flying Circus, has been entrusted with Hector Berlioz's "The Damnation of Faust."

Gilliam's Faustian Pact Paul Levy 2011

Described by Hector Berlioz as "a man with long hair, piercing eyes and a strange, ravaged countenance," Paganini played with such fire that audiences believed he was in league with the devil.

A Violinist on a Solo Mission Stuart Isacoff 2011

And though most of the works by Hector Berlioz, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel featured this season are in no way unexpected except, perhaps, in their number, scores by André Jolivet, Francis Poulenc, Edgard Varèse and Henri Vieuxtemps come as something of a surprise.

Seattle Symphony's French Revolution David Mermelstein 2011

An inspiration … actress Harriet Smithson married composer Hector Berlioz in 1833.

Forgotten Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette 2012

Together, they all performed the monumental "Requiem" by 19th century Romantic composer Hector Berlioz.

High Schoolers Perform with Masters at Carnegie Hall 2011

Together, they all performed the monumental "Requiem" by 19th century Romantic composer Hector Berlioz.

High Schoolers Perform with Masters at Carnegie Hall 2011

Hector Berlioz, 1851The smooth, smartly suited Tony Hall never looks like he is running, but he is.

The Royal Opera House: Welcome to the new people's palace | Observer Profile 2011

It's curious then that the most French of romantic composers, Hector Berlioz, should have made a version of Der Freischütz for a Paris production in 1841, in which the spoken dialogue was replaced with recitative and a ballet inserted.

This week's new live music 2011

Recently in New York I went to a preview performance of a rarely staged piece of music theater called "The Damnation of Faust," by Hector Berlioz.

Stephen Mo Hanan: Selling Your Soul to the Devil for Fun and Profit 2009