Thursday, March 24, 2005

Music Of The Great Composers --

Hector Berlioz-Part 6 His Tremendous Orchestral Effects I have quoted in detail the program of this work, as it gives a characteristic of Berlioz' individuality. His fantasy and his other music have something morbid and chaotic, which borders on insanity. Even the extravagant orchestral masses he uses in his works are a symptom of his abnormality. In his smaller works he usually writes for an orchestra of more than usual size, using by preference four bassoons instead o..