Berlioz got him to rescore a number of his earlier pieces to remarkable effect, and the influence lasted. |
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Perhaps more than any other Romantic composer, Berlioz found inspiration for his music in literature. |
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Throughout this book, Guest weaves in connections to Berlioz, ballet, choreography, the origins of poetry itself and multi-faceted aspects of imagined celestial spheres. |
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In Berlioz, he planted the two harps in front of the orchestra, on either side of his rostrum, and banished bells and drums to the unseen backstage. |
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Weighty, serious and with noble sonorousness, Scherchen's Berlioz is not for those to whom Fournet, Munch, Beecham and Davis are lodestars in this work. |
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It sounds like odd moments of Berlioz, Tchaikovsky or Ravel, but only in respect of isolated chords here and there, a harp glissando upbeat, a stretto passage for the violins. |
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Cornets appear in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake, Claude Debussy's La Mer, and several orchestral works by Hector Berlioz. |
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Among these were masters of orchestration from whom he learned much, such as Berlioz and Richard Wagner. |
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In between the Berlioz offerings came Beethoven's Violin Concerto, enthrallingly played by young Ukrainian virtuoso Valeriy Sokolov. |
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Elgar stands on the shoulders of Berlioz, Wagner, and Liszt, from whose influences he has freed himself until he has become an important individuality. |
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