Who Was Berlioz

Fantastique! for Schools (F!4S) is an innovative music education project creating free, easy-to-use, online teaching resources using specific works (initially Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique) to engage schoolchildren aged 8–13 with classical music through enjoyable & engaging activities, in the classroom or remotely.

Here is video produced by Berlioz 150, registered Charity No. 1173910, founded to mark the 150th anniversary in 2019 of Hector Berlioz’s death. Berlioz 150's aim is to use Hector Berlioz's life and career to inspire young people with a lifelong love of music and singing.

WHO WAS BERLIOZ

Edited by Nick Stewart
Original drawings by Holly Newnham
Animations by Nick Stewart
Narrated by Malcolm Sinclair

Music courtesy of LSO Live: Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, performed by London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Colin Davis.

Illustrations:
Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven when composing the Missa Solemnis by Joseph Karl Stieler (1820), Beethoven-Haus, Bonn.
Portrait d'Hector Berlioz by François-Xavier Dupré (1830), Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis ; Crédit photographique: @Vasari
Partition autographe de la Symphonie fantastique de Berlioz (1830) avec un extrait du premier poème des "Feuilles d'automne" de Victor Hugo, Musicopolis © BnF Gallica (bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale de France).
Portrait of the Irish actress Harriet Smithson by George Clint, Musée Hector-Berlioz, Département de l’Isère, France.
Hector Berlioz de Gustave Courbet (1850), Musée d'Orsay, Paris ; Crédit photographique: Réunion des Musées Nationaux.
Lithography "Les Troyens. Opéra en cinq actes. H. Berlioz. Théâtre-Lyrique Impérial" by Prudent Louis Leray Author, Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF).
Cover to an early vocal score of Les Troyens by Antoine Barbizet, Harvard Library.
Engraving A Matinée at Liszts by Joseph Kriehuber (1846), Musée Hector-Berlioz, Département de l’Isère, France.
Book cover The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz courtesy of Everyman's Library Classics.
Audiobook cover The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz courtesy of The Berlioz Society.
Portrait photo by Pierre Petit, Private Collection.
Lithography "Hector Berlioz" by Joseph Kriehuber (1845), Private Collection.
Lithography "Hector Berlioz" by August Prinzhofer (1845), Private Collection.
Berlioz Concert à mitraille, Private Collection.
Caricature de Berlioz by Gustave Doré, published in Journal pour rire, 27 June 1850.

With thanks to Gunther Braam and Julian Rushton.

Produced by Berlioz 150
Fantastique! for School
© Berlioz 150 MMXXI

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