2 Quotes & Sayings By Louis Hector Berlioz
Louis Hector Berlioz was a French composer of the Romantic period. His influence on musical Romanticism was profound, and he is one of the most important composers in European history. He was a brilliant interpreter of his own music, and his mastery of orchestration was such that his music could be easily adapted for ballet and other stage works. Berlioz wrote extensively about music, but also on literature, painting, and art, on philosophy and political economy, on the maturation of the arts, and on music itself
His creative output was colossal: he wrote some 160 works, including 72 complete operas, 32 ballets, 19 symphonies, 22 concertos for orchestra, 25 piano sonatas, 12 string quartets, 6 piano sonatas, 4 string quintets, 2 curative chamber symphonies for strings and wind instruments (percussion included), etc.