... forms of program music. Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869) was a truly gifted composer who was most definitely inspired by literature; mainly Shakespeare. His composition Lelio is a correspondence to the renowned play Hamlet. Probably his best known piece though, Symphonie Fantastique was written about a woman that Berlioz was madly infatuated with. The Irish Shakespearean actress, Harriet Smithson, was the Bent 3 object of his ... affections, and did actually become his wife for a short time years after this composition. The remarkable part about the symphony is that Berlioz actually had pro...

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