Arts & Letters
Which composer wrote the Symphonie fantastique about an artist's opium dream?
- Hector Berlioz
- Franz Liszt
- Camille Saint-Saens
The answer is Hector Berlioz. Berlioz, in 1830.
Louis-Hector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, conductor and critic. 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.
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