Which French composer composed the 1830 work Symphonie Fantastique?
La Symphonie fantastique La Symphonie fantastique La Symphonie fantastique is a 1942 French drama film by Christian-Jaque and produced by the German-controlled French film production company Continental Films. The film is based upon the life of the French composer Hector Berlioz. The title is taken from the five-movement programmatic "Symphonie fantastique" of 1830. The film lasts around 90 minutes and was first shown at the 'Normandie' cinema in Paris on 1 April 1942. The posters at the premiere contained the sub-title 'La Vie passionnée et glorieuse d'un génie' (which links with the quote from Hugo at the very end of the film). The
Symphonie fantastique the "idée fixe" in a solo clarinet, as though representing the last conscious thought of the soon-to-be-executed man. This movement can be divided into sections according to tempo changes: </score> There are a host of effects, including eerie "col legno" in the strings suggesting dancing skeletons– the bubbling of the witches' cauldron to the blasts of wind. The climactic finale combines the somber Dies Irae melody with the wild fugue of the "Ronde du Sabbat". Symphonie fantastique Leonard Bernstein described the symphony as the first musical expedition into psychedelia because of its hallucinatory and dream-like nature, and because history suggests