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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique- 5th Movement

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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
5th movement:Songe d'une Nuit de Sabbat
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo
Conducted by Pinchas Steinberg

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  • Berlioz was a genius lunatic. This entire piece is written about his obsession with a woman he fell in love with as a teen. She eventually came to see his performance and decided to date him after seeing is WAS about her (after many letters and tickets to his show). Berlioz asked her hand in marriage. When she declined he pulled a lethal dose of opium out of his pocket and downed it in front of her. She then accepted, being scared, and he pulled the antidote from his other pocket and drank that.

  • Voldemort's in the audience. 9:33

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  • best part starts at 3:27

  • @PazPanda that made me laugh so hard!!!

  • not only did i just discover a new favorite but the guy that yells in excitement at the end was icing on the cake with a cherry on top. thanks for this great recording lol

  • @jaylay734 It's the Dies Irae - a musical theme that's used everywhere. Two examples that come to mind are Totentanz and the 3rd Movement of Rach's Symphonic Dances.

  • @BurtonKeys88 Its a great story--and a true one!  He was a man obsessed--but unlike the rest of us put it into creativity.

  • Berlioz, Wagner and Lizst were/are the 'new' musical world order--they have not been surpassed. After Beethoven, they freed music. This is not to say that they didn't have to fight every step of the way in this liberation--their were lots of philistines. You can usually tell a man of genius by how many cretins want to pull him down--trying to remember who said that--certainly true of Berlioz's life, which was not an easy, but certainly a fulfiling one. A genuis and a principled soul.

  • Fuck my computer can't get any louder!

  • 3:20 - Lord of the Rings? Does that part remind anyone else of LOTR?

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