He wrote his first opera on the life of the artist Benvenuto Cellini, but at its premiere it was met with riots by the audience and complaints from musicians that it was impossible to play.
He wrote his first opera on the life of the artist Benvenuto Cellini, but at its premiere it was met with riots by the audience and complaints from musicians that it was impossible to play. To celebrate the acquisition of a Stradivarius viola, Paganini paid this composer 20,000 francs for Harold en Italie, although he never played it. In one of his most famous works, subtitled "Episodes in the life of an artist," his "beloved" appears in various motifs but by the end, he dreams that he has killed her and is being led to the guillotine and in the last movement, his beloved has been transformed into a hag. He stated that Goethe and Shakespeare were the guiding influences in his life as seen in his works La Damnation de Faust and Béatrice et Bénédict. FTP, name the composer of Les Troyens, Roméo et Juliette, and Symphonie Fantastique.
He wrote his first opera on the life of the artist Benvenuto Cellini, but at its premiere it was met with riots by the audience and complaints from musicians that it was impossible to play.
Hector {Berlioz}