Hector Berlioz
Marche au Supplice
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Hector Berlioz
Marche au Supplice
- Instrumentation Concert Band
- Composer Hector Berlioz
- Editor Wil van der Beek
- Series The Great Classics
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- Edition Score and Parts
- Publisher De Haske Publications
- Order no. DHP0991575-010
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Description:
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) once remarked: 'My life is a novel that greatly interests me. ' Experiences in his personal life had a great influence on his compositions. Symphonie Fantastique, written in 1830, is also autobiographical: he subtitled the work Episode in the Life of an Artist. The symphony echoes his feelings for an actress. The Marche au Supplice (march into torture) he described as: 'The artist dreams he has killed his beloved, that he has been sentenced to death and is being led to the scaffold. The procession moves to the notes of a march that is now sombre and turbulent, now radiant and stately, and in which boisterous outbursts suddenly dissolve into the heavy sound of marching feet. '