During his lifetime, composer Hector Berlioz (1803-69) was the great outsider of French music. Though as composer and conductor he achieved popularity in Germany, England and even Russia, his music ...

Hector Berlioz was the arch-Romantic composer, his life was all you’d expect – by turn turbulent and passionate, ecstatic and melancholic. Berlioz’s father was a country doctor practising near ...

Critics bayed for Hector Berlioz’s blood whenever his music was played but happily for the composer, today it’s their reputations and not his in the guillotine Hector Berlioz was a one-off – a genius ...