Overview context

Born in 1803 in France

bethooven moved to classical to romantic and berlioz would have grown up listening to these,bethooven was the model

1830 was when symphonie fantastique,

berlioz was self tought,he also wasnt a pianist(he played guitar and flute) he didnt care about the rules as he was self tought(fact check me)

in 1827 he goes in paris to a production in hamlet(he didnt speak english but he really was impressed)(shakespeare was a big influence)

hariot smithson was an english irish actress and she played ophelia in the play hamlet,and berlioz was obsessed with her,he stalked her sent letters for 3 years,he was so opssessed he wrote symphonie fantastique,

the symphony is about a young artists that falls in love with a girl,(we know this cause he insited to give a program to the audience-completely differnece between classical music)

in sonarta form but kinda not

he invited idée fixe(fixed idea-obssessed/obstila)(its a melody thats fixed and keeps coming back)(kinda breaks down,gets distroted)

3 years after he composed the symphonies he marries hariot smithson but after they divorce

the focus of this set work is programatic music

movement 1 is called Rêveries—Passions

movement 2 A Ball(not the name)

movement 3 shepards talking to each other)not the name) -

movement 4 opium(fever dream) this idee fixe gets more and more disjointed

movement 5 - the witches sabbath(vulgur,witchlike)

add wider listening(can be other movements from the same song)

its all about how he is telling the story

rollecoasting (goes one thing to another) emotiions(really capture the human emotions at its extreme)(disgust,isolation)

its called symphnaie fantastique-episode in the life of an artist

like an opera

the idee fixe is 40 bars(32 dynamic markings) - (theres equence)(at the end it comes down as if he showing too much emotion

never heard an orchestra

programatic telling a story

wider listening? - tone poems of Liszt, Strauss

this music has meaning

wider listening - harold in italy by berlioz