Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic ... Berlioz made great contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on ...
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of where the musician lived. His Memoirs are interesting as a biography of Hector Berlioz written by himself. They also reveal his character full of passion, his idea of music, his wit. Youth and education Berlioz's father was a rather important doctor and took care personally of his children's education, Hector and his two sisters, teaching him also music. In his memoirs
spin to his deficiency, saying that it allowed him to create music anywhere, piano or not. This freedom gave Berlioz a voice unlike any other. But Hector's father still insisted that the boy study medicine, so at 16, Berlioz began his medical studies. In 1821, he went to the Medical