Definition of Berlioz

1. Noun. French composer of romantic works (1803-1869).

Exact synonyms: Hector Berlioz, Louis-hector Berlioz
Generic synonyms: Composer

Definition of Berlioz

1. Proper noun. A surname, usually applying to French composer Hector Berlioz ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Berlioz

Berkshires
Berlage
Berlepsch's tinamou
Berlepsch's tinamous
Berlin
Berlin's oedema
Berlin Wall
Berlin airlift
Berlin blue
Berlin doughnut
Berlin green
Berlin greens
Berliner
Berliners
Berlinese
Berlioz
Berlitz
Berlusconi
Berlusconian
Bermuda
Bermuda-shorts
Bermuda Triangle
Bermuda cedar
Bermuda chub
Bermuda dollar
Bermuda green
Bermuda lily
Bermuda maidenhair

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 ..."

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