Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

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THAT M. Adolphe Jullien should have followed up his Life of Wagner with a similar Life of Berlioz 1 is one of the things which, as he himself more than half admits, may fairly be called fated. As a ...

Curmudgeonly, spirited, romantic, ultimately tragic and a fan of the ridiculous - on the 150th anniversary of his death, it's time to get excited about Hector Berlioz. 1. He was probably too obsessed ...

From the archive, 17 February 1848: The Observer reviews Hector Berlioz conducting his orchestra at the Drury Lane theatre The past week at Drury-lane Theatre has been fertile in events of a very ...

During his lifetime, composer Hector Berlioz (1803-69) was the great outsider of French music. Though as composer and conductor he achieved popularity in Germany, England and even Russia, his music ...

He revived interest in a “problem child” in the pantheon of high romantic composers, bringing Berlioz overdue recognition as one of France’s greatest composers. By Adam Nossiter The Romantic-era ...

As announced in the preface to his Hector Berlioz, Mr. Apthorp’s aim has been “ to show what the man was, rather than what he did.” The work is practically divided into three parts: first, a ...

Critics bayed for Hector Berlioz’s blood whenever his music was played but happily for the composer, today it’s their reputations and not his in the guillotine Hector Berlioz was a one-off – a genius ...