It was because I was walking along the Rhine River that I saw a blind girl who was physically disabled and determined, and her kind brother, so I created the moonlight.
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Berlioz's Fantasia, with its imaginative orchestral grammar, opened a decisive door for the romanticism of music. At that time, romanticism was gradually sweeping from literature and painting to music, and Berlioz just met him. But the French pay attention to elegance and detail, unlike Germany, which pursues seriousness and massiness. Therefore, the French have never played a prominent role in the symphony style that pays attention to form and structure. However, Berlioz, a genius, wrote the symphony Fantasia, which guarded the symphony into the first stage of romanticism and broke the general belief that "the French are not good at composing symphonies".
At that time, romanticism was like a duck to water in France, and it had its own representatives in poetry, painting and music. Hugo is a poet, Fugen Delacroix is a painter and Berlioz is a respected musician. Romanticism believes that art should respect the absolute freedom of creators, but in music, it shows great interest in dazzling expressions, such as Liszt's piano performance and Paganini's violin performance. In orchestral music, Berlioz is undoubtedly the forerunner of "superb orchestral skills". His symphony is very different from the past. No matter in the scale of music, the development of musical thought or the number of movements, Berlioz's techniques seem to be out of control. His symphonies left to the world include Fantasia, Harold of Italy, Romeo and Juliet, Grand Symphony of Funeral and Triumph, and the most famous one, Fantasia, was completed in 1830, when Schumann.
Creation background
As we all know, Berlioz wrote Fantasia because of his infatuation with the actress harriet Smithsonian. Before telling this love story in detail, I want to mention the subsequent development of Symphony Fantasia for those who are interested. After Symphony of Fantasia, Berlioz also wrote a biographical sequel and a musical sequel for this story, in which the biographical sequel Back to Life tells the story of the artist lelio (Op. 14b) returning from madness to real life through the therapeutic power of music. The musical Reilio, named after the artist Reilio, is an innovative orchestral work that combines the oral expressions of singers and actors.
If Berlioz wrote the symphony Fantasia for the Smithsonian, most people would think that Berlioz is quite infatuated, but as far as his love history is concerned, Berlioz's infatuation is only temporary. When he was twelve, love and music waved to him at the same time. Compared with estelle Dubov, who is six years older than him, he had a crush on anti-aircraft guns, and this pure feeling can also be heard in the preface of Adagio in the first movement of Fantasia. 18 17 studied vocal music and flute with M. Imbert, the second violinist in the theater, which was regarded as the official beginning of music enlightenment education.
As for Berlioz's crazy actress Smithson, she was born in Ireland, her father is a theater manager, and she has a good drama background. Originally, Smithsonian planned to go to London to develop her stage career, but her strong Irish accent became the biggest obstacle to her development in Britain. 1827 (Berlioz was 23 years old), the Smithsonian happened to have the opportunity to perform in France (because of the language barrier, the Smithsonian could just cover up the shortcomings of her pronunciation). In Hamlet in Fauriat, famous people in French art and literature were here that night, and Hugo, Dumas, Balzac, Berlioz and others were all guests. After the performance, Berlioz was deeply moved by the Smithsonian's performance. He wrote in his memoirs: I think of Shakespeare and this inspiring actress. All Parisians are crazy about Ofori. Compared with my poverty and poverty, her glory is so great that I have to cheer up. I made up my mind to make my name, which is strange to her, brilliant through hard work!
At that time, Berlioz, who had just started in the music industry and was unknown, began to pursue the first step of his plan and held a personal concert. Unfortunately, his first step didn't have much effect, because this miss Smithsonian is not interested in music. However, Berlioz did not give up, and set out to write the symphony Fantasia for her. However, how can he know that fate is deceiving? 1830 When Fantasia premiered (Berlioz was 27 years old), Smithsonian left France and returned to England, and never heard this piece tailored for her again. Interestingly, Berlioz won the Rome Prize for Composition in the same year, so he abandoned his love for loved one of the Smithsonian and accepted the love of another music girl, Camille Mock. At the end of the year, they agreed to get married when Berlioz returned from Rome. Unexpectedly, Berlioz received a letter from Camille's snobbish mother in Rome, explaining that she had decided to let her daughter marry the eldest son of the famous piano producer Ignar Pleijel. Berlioz, like a bolt from the blue, went to a women's clothing store and bought a suit of women's clothing to disguise himself. At the same time, he bought a pistol and suicide poison, and planned to go back to Paris overnight to kill Camille, her mother and her fiance. Fortunately, Berlioz gradually woke up on the way and told himself, "What's so rare about that kind of woman!" After all, it didn't cause a big disaster. This is the story of the famous Berlioz crazy black boy.
After all, Berlioz's fate with the Smithsonian is not over. Symphony Fantasia was staged again at 1832, and the Smithsonian finally got a chance to hear it. Two other works of Berlioz, Romeo and Juliet and Lerio, were specially arranged that night. There is a passage in Lerio that recites the lyrics: Oh! I want to see her beauty, Juliet and O 'Fauriat. For this wish, my heart is singing loudly, and I just want to drink the cup of joy and sadness of love! If only I could be held by her on the wild heather tree in the autumn night, staggered by the north wind, and then go to sleep for the last time! Berlioz personally played the timpani in the concert that night, which shows the Smithsonian's position in his mind.
However, after a lapse of five years, Smithsonian, who is popular in French drama, has long been out of breath and heavily in debt, while Berlioz, who was unknown in the past, is now a star in music, and the situation of the two is nothing more than that. Therefore, Berlioz married the Smithsonian in June of 1833+00, and he had a long-cherished wish to marry a wife. However, "no matter how great love is, it must pass the test of real life." Seven years later, the two ended their marriage and had a son, Louis. After the divorce, Berlioz married the opera singer Mary Reggio, but they still didn't grow old together. Berlioz's love keeps coming ashore, but it also keeps drifting again. His unrequited love for the Smithsonian inspired the completion of Fantasia, and today it has become his firm and gentle testimony.
However, the appeal of love alone is certainly not enough to achieve Fantasia, one of the greatest symphonies in the history of music. Berlioz fell in love because he saw the Smithsonian play the role of Shakespeare, so Shakespeare can be regarded as a matchmaker. At that time, Shakespeare's literature came to France through Voltaire's introduction, and Berlioz himself was a serious Shakespeare fanatic. Many of his creations are based on Shakespeare's works, such as the opera Beatrice and Benedict, the symphony Romeo and Juliet, and many piano music and orchestral music, such as The Death of O 'Filja, King Lear and Hamlet's Funeral March. In addition, Goethe's works had a far-reaching influence on Berlioz in his youth. You don't have to admire Berlioz's talent too much, because times make everything, and musicians in romantic times often have dual talents of music and literature.