There were also two European Romantic composers who referenced "Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage" in their programmatic works. Hector Berlioz recorded in his memoires that, in composing "Harold en Italie" (1834), he wished to draw on memories of his wanderings in the Abruzzi, making of the solo for viola at its start "a sort of melancholic reverie in the manner of Byron’s Childe Harold" ("une sorte de rêveur mélancolique dans le genre du Child-Harold de Byron"). Nevertheless, Donald Tovey has pointed out in his analysis of the work that "there is no trace in Berlioz's music of any of the famous passages of "Childe Harold"".