The result of the composer's obsession with Irish actress Harriet Smithson, this work is subtitled Episode in the Life of an Artist.
It contains two flutes, the second doubling piccolo, and two oboes, the second doubling cor anglais. The result of the composer's obsession with Irish actress Harriet Smithson, this work is subtitled Episode in the Life of an Artist. The central figure wanders through five movements of a drug-induced dream in which he encounters the woman he loves, each scene a variation of the original idée fixe. Its movements bear the titles Reveries—Passions, Un Bal, Scène aux champs, Marche au supplice, and Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat. FTP, identify this most famous symphony of Hector Berlioz.
It contains two flutes, the second doubling piccolo, and two oboes, the second doubling cor anglais.
{Symphonie Fantastique}