I feel grateful to the happy chance which forced me to comp… - Hector Berlioz

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I feel grateful to the happy chance which forced me to compose freely and in silence, and has thus delivered me from the tyranny of the fingers, so dangerous to thought.

Hector Berlioz

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Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11 1803 – March 8 1869) was a French composer, conductor and music critic, widely seen as the greatest representative in music of the French Romantic school.

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Alternative Names: Louis-Hector Berlioz • Louis Hector Berlioz • Hektors Berliozs • Luī Ektors Berliozs • Ludovicus Hector Berlioz • Ettore Berlioz • Hector Louis Berlioz • Ludoviko Hektoro Berlioz • Гектор Берлиоз • Берлиоз, Гектор Луи • Гектор Луи Берлиоз • Berlioz • ベルリオーズ • ルイ・エクトル・ベルリオーズ • Hektor Berlioz

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Vous me priez de vous dire…S'il est vrai que l'acte de foi de tout ce qui prétend aimer l'art élevé et sérieux soit celui-ci : "Il n'y a pas d'autre Dieu que Bach, et Mendelssohn est son prophète"?

Instrumentation is to music precisely what color is to painting.

Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's imagination crumbles before the hopelessness of the reality. Every day fresh experiences bring fresh disappointments.

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