Symphony with viola obbligato composed by Hector Berlioz
Harold en Italie
Symphony with viola solo by Hector Berlioz
Portrait of Berlioz, 1832
English
Harold in Italy
Catalogue
H. 16
Opus
16
Based on
Lord Byron's "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
Performed
23 November 1834 (1834-11-23)
Movements
four
Scoring
viola
orchestra
Harold en Italie, symphonie avec un alto principal (Harold in Italy, symphony with viola obbligato), as the manuscript describes it, is a four-movement orchestral work by Hector Berlioz, his Opus 16, H. 68, written in 1834. Throughout, the unusual viola part represents the titular protagonist, without casting the form as a concerto. The movements have these titles, alluding to a programme:
HaroldenItalie, symphonie avec un alto principal (Harold in Italy, symphony with viola obbligato), as the manuscript describes it, is a four-movement...
Quartet by Dmitri Shostakovich, and the symphony with a main viola line HaroldenItalie, by Hector Berlioz. In the earlier part of the 20th century, more composers...
Nonetheless, some important Romantic music was written in G major. HaroldenItalie, a symphony with a solo viola part by Hector Berlioz, is in G major...
Dupree (piano). Harmonia Mundi, Nova. Released Aug. 2021. Berlioz, HaroldenItalie, Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, conducted by John Nelson....
Philharmonie Berlin. In 2013, Grosz was soloist in Hector Berlioz's HaroldenItalie conducted by Emanuel Krivine as part of the Berlioz Festival in France...
each of the eight movements (apart from the first) Hector Berlioz's HaroldenItalie contains an extensive part for viola obbligato Trumpet obbligato in...
March 2019]. In 2014, he played viola for the recording of Berlioz's HaroldenItalie, conducted by Valery Gergiev. Tamestit premiered several contemporary...
after the classical music era. However, some works such as Berlioz's HaroldenItalie, for viola and orchestra approach the genre.[citation needed] Ludwig...
Studie, Christian Gerhaher, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlioz: HaroldenItalie, Stéphane Degout, François-Xavier Roth, Les Siècles Javier Perianes...
for cor anglais would later find prominent use for the solo viola in HaroldenItalie. The instrumentation is two flutes (second doubling piccolo), two oboes...
concerto-like pieces emerging such as Max Bruch's Romanze, Hector Berlioz's HaroldenItalie, or Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Potpourri, the viola concerto would see...
including his "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette, the viola symphony HaroldenItalie and the highly original Symphonie fantastique. The latter is also a...
should be regarded as merely a guideline. Symphonie fantastique (1830) HaroldenItalie (1834) Roméo et Juliette (1839) Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale...
songs 1833 – Gaetano Donizetti: Parisina, opera 1834 – Hector Berlioz: HaroldenItalie, symphony in four movements for viola and orchestra 1835 – Gaetano...
Philharmonic for Decca Records (1966); Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique and HaroldenItalie (1976) for EMI; and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (1981) for Philips...
Samuel Barber 2015 Hector Berlioz: Reverie et Caprice, Op. 8 (violin) | HaroldenItalie, Op. 16 (viola) 2015 Cesar Franck and Richard Strauss: Violin Sonatas...
Ernst also played the viola. He performed the viola solo of Berlioz's HaroldenItalie many times, including under the direction of the composer in 1842....
by Stasov in 1868 for Hector Berlioz as a sequel to that composer's HaroldenItalie, the program had since been in Balakirev's care. Tchaikovsky declined...
required) Bonds, Mark Evan (Autumn 1992). "Sinfonia anti-eroica: Berlioz's HaroldenItalie and the Anxiety of Beethoven's Influence". The Journal of Musicology...
September 2015). "Sometimes people think they are holding a magic wand". tass.ru/en (Interview). Interviewed by Andrei Vandenko. Russian News Agency TASS. Retrieved...
fantastique (1830), perhaps the first true programmatic symphony; HaroldenItalie (1834), for viola obbligato and orchestra; Roméo et Juliette (1839)...
this first kiss". Chabrier also made a transcription of Berlioz's HaroldenItalie for piano duet, in 1876. Souvenirs de Bayreuth, a similarly irreverent...
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