Thursday 14 June 2018

88) Louis-Hector Berlioz

Louis-Hector Berlioz (1803 – 1869), French Romantic composer. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy, choral pieces including the Requiem and L'Enfance du Christ, his three operas Benvenuto Cellini, Les Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict, and works of hybrid genres such as the "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette and the "dramatic legend" La Damnation de Faust.

- "The mop of red hair that surmounted his head like an umbrella". 

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49235/49235-h/49235-h.htm

- "A lock of hair taken from that once auburn mane shows it to have become completely white." https://books.google.it/



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