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Definition of Berlioz
1. Noun. French composer of romantic works (1803-1869).
Definition of Berlioz
1. Proper noun. A surname, usually applying to French composer Hector Berlioz ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Berlioz
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wagner and His Works: The Story of His Life, with Critical Comments by Henry Theophilus Finck (1893)
"Liszt was a great admirer of Berlioz, for whose operas he made the same efforts
at Weimar as for Wagner's, but with less satisfactory results. ..."
2. Music (1899)
"This letter is of great importance, as Berlioz himself relates in it an interesting
fact of which there is no other proof, either in his autobiography or ..."
3. Music: An Art and a Language by Walter Raymond Spalding (1920)
"As Berlioz stands as the foremost representative of program music and never ...
That of Berlioz, for example, was quite a new phenomenon; and as for the ..."
4. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1880)
"In Germany Berlioz was looked up to as a genial composer at a time when people
... Only the unusually cordial and almost sentimental tone in which Berlioz ..."
5. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1862)
"Berlioz now (in 1833) found means of executing his great compositions, and took
his place among contemporary composers. Thrown at the Conservatoire amongst ..."