It used material from its composer's unfinished Rob Roy, while the composer used the money given to him for his later Romeo et Juliette.
In his eminently amusing essay on this work, Donald Tovey calls its composer "the whitest liar since Cyrano de Bergerac" and catalogues the various differences between this work and its source material. Its composer stated that convent bells in this work are "suggested by two harp-notes doubled by the flutes, oboes and horns", and in the scherzo, the oboe and piccolo represent pifferi. It used material from its composer's unfinished Rob Roy, while the composer used the money given to him for his later Romeo et Juliette. It features movements like "Serenade of an Abruzzi mountaineer to his mistress" and "March of the pilgrims singing their evening prayer." This work ends with an "Orgy of the Brigands", and Paganini objected to this work because he did not get enough time playing the viola, though the viola does represent the title character. For 10 points, name this symphony by Hector Berlioz, based on a work of Lord Byron.
In his eminently amusing essay on this work, Donald Tovey calls its composer "the whitest liar since Cyrano de Bergerac" and catalogues the various differences between this work and its source material.
{Harold en Italie} or {Harold} in {Italy}