Hector Berlioz — more formally, Louis-Hector Berlioz — was born in 1803. It’s amazing to think of this, given the nature of his music. That birth year seems so early! Berlioz was born just ...

Berlioz’s father was a country doctor practising near Grenoble who was musical enough to give his son his first lessons on the flute, though dead set against music as a career. (Later Berlioz took up ...

This past weekend, it was a 200-year-old overture. Hector Berlioz’s music is most often heard at Davies Symphony Hall in repeat performances of his “Symphonie Fantastique,” a piece that took ...

Berlioz's second wife Marie Recio Images 2 and 4 reproduced with permission of the Hector Berlioz website Image 5 reproduced with permission of the Musée Hector-Berlioz ...