What did composer Berlioz originally study?
Hector Berlioz Hector Berlioz Louis-Hector Berlioz (; ; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a 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 elder son of a provincial doctor, Berlioz was expected to follow his father into medicine, and he attended a Parisian medical college before defying his family
Hector Berlioz towards Berlioz. Since Barzun, the leading Berlioz scholars have included David Cairns, D. Kern Holoman, Hugh Macdonald and Julian Rushton. Cairns translated and edited Berlioz's "Mémoires" in 1969, and published a two-volume, 1500-page study of the composer (1989 and 1999), described in "Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians" as "one of the masterpieces of modern biography". Holoman was responsible for the publication in 1987 of the first thematic catalogue of Berlioz's works; two years later he published a single-volume biography of the composer. Macdonald was appointed in 1967 as the inaugural general editor of the New Berlioz Edition published by