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Fantastic symphony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Year Episode in the Life of the Artist Opus 14, usually referred to by its subtitle fantastic Symphonie (Fantastic Symphony) is A. It is widely regarded have one of the most important and representative parts of the early period, and is still very popular with symphonic audiences worldwide. The first performance took place Conservatory At the Paris in December 1830. The work was repeatedly revised between 1831 and 1845. Fifth movement: "one night Dream of Sabbath" The symphony is scored for year orchestrated consisting of 2 (later reorchestrated by the to compose for. which tells the story of "year artist gifted with has lively imagination" who has "poisoned himself with" in the "depths of to despair" because of "hopeless coils." Berlioz provided his own program notes for each movement of the work (see below). He prefaces his notes with the following instructions: The composer' S intention has been to develop various episodes in the life of year artist, in so far treatment have they lend themselves to musical. Have the work cannot rely one the assistance of speech, the instrumental plan of the drama needs to Be set out in advance., instead of the furnace movements which were conventional for symphonies At the time: Scene with the fields (Scene in the country) Walk with the torment (March to the scaffold) one night Dream of Sabbath (Dream of has witches' Sabbath) In Berlioz' S own program notes from 1845, He writes:. This melodic image and its model keep haunting him ceaselessly like has double obsession. Constant This explains the recurrence in all the movements of the symphony of the melody which launches the first allegro. Radical The first movement is in its harmonic outline, building has vast arch back to the home key, which, while similar to the of classical composition, was taken have has departure by Parisian critics. It is here that the listener is introduced to the theme of the artist' S beloved, but the. Throughout the movement, there is has simplicity of presentation of the melody and topics, which, ideas which could Be extended, had the to compose chosen to. The theme itself was taken from Berlioz' S. Again, quoting from Berlioz' S program notes:. It is filled with running ascending and descending figures. The obsession theme interrupts the waltz twice. The harps may well symbolize the object of affection, goal certainly provide the glamour and sensual richness of the ball being represented. One evening in the countryside He hears two shepherds in the distance dialoguing with to their '. He broods one his loneliness, and hopes that soon He will No to skirt Be one his own... What yew she betrayed him drank.... This mingled hope and fear, these ideas of happiness, disturbed by dark premonitions, form the subject of the adagio. At the end one of the shepherds resumes his ` ranz of the vaches'. the other one No to skirt answers. Distant sound of thunder... loneliness... silence. After the horn/oboe conversation has ended, the principal theme of the movement appears one solo flute and violins. Berlioz salvaged this theme from his abandoned. The obsession returns in the middle of the movement. Distant The sound of thunder At the end of the movement is year innovative passage for furnace. Convinced that his coils is spurned, the artist poisons himself with opium. The proportions of narcotic, while too weak to causes his death, plunges him into has heavy sleep accompanied by the strangest of visions. He dreams that He has killed his beloved, that He is condemned, led to the scaffold and is witnessing his own execution. At the end of the march, the first furnace bars of the obsession reappear like has final thought of coils interrupted by the fatal blow. Berlioz claimed to cuts movement written the fourth in A individual night, reconstructing music from year unfinished project, the will opera. Musical Prior to the depiction of his execution, there is has brief, nostalgic recollection of the obsession in A solo, have though representing the last conscious thought of the soon to Be executed man. Immediately following this is has individual shorts. Fifth movement: "one night Dream of Sabbath". Distant Strange sounds, groans, outbursts of laughter. shouts which seem to Be answered by more shouts. The dance of the witches combined with the Dies irae. The return of the obsession have has "vulgar dance tune" is depicted with A prominent E-flat Clarinet solo. There are has host of effects, including eery playing in the strings, the bubbling of the witches' cauldron to the blasts of wind. Final The climactic of the symphony combine the somber Dies Irae melody with the wild running away of the Ronde of the Sabbath (Sabbath Round). Berlioz wrote in his essay "One Imitation in Music":. Such is the goal of expression, depiction but musical metaphors. in music, which was year idea drawn from ' S uses of similar rhythmic structures gold shapes, and the idea of musical "cycles", such have has "song cycle". , which use this device have well. called this symphony the first musical natural forwarding into because of its hallucinatory and dream-like, and because history suggests Berlioz composed At least has portion of it under the of influence. In 1831, Berlioz wrote has much less well known sequel to the work., who was one good terms with Berlioz, made has piano transcription of the work in 1833 (S. Berlioz fell in coils with year Irish actress, with her in the role of Ophelia, one. He feels her numerous coils letters, all of which went unanswered. When she left Paris they had still not puts. He then wrote the symphony have has way to express train his unrequited coils. She eventually heard the work in 1832 and realized that she was the genesis. The two finally puts and were married one. While the marriage was happy for several years, they were divorced nine years later. Translation of Berlioz' S program fantastic note to the Symphony. Transcript to "Berlioz Takes has Trip" episode of Leonard Bernstein' S Young People' S Concerts Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford University Press, 2002. Fantastic symphony one The Hector Berlioz Website, with links to Scorch full score and program note written by the to compose Fantastic Symphony was available At the International Music Score Library Project. 4th Movement - Leeds Symphony Orchestrated July 2007. 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