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Hector Berlioz was born on December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869 in France at La Côte-Saint-André in the department of Isère, near Grenoble, he was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts.

 

Berlioz was not a child prodigy, unlike some other famous composers of the time; he began studying music at age 12, writing small compositions and arrangements. As a result of his father's discouragement, he never learned to play the piano, a peculiarity he later described as both beneficial and detrimental. He became proficient at guitar, flageolet and flute. He learned harmony from textbooks alone—he was not formally trained. The majority of his early compositions were romances and chamber pieces.

 

He was very influential when it came to music; he created a new way of producing music. Although neglected in France for much of the 19th century, the music of Berlioz has often been cited as extremely influential in the development of the symphonic form, instrumentation, and the depiction in music of programmatic and literary ideas, features central to musical Romanticism.

 

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