На дворе 1830 год, и ход истории вот-вот изменится: романтизм уже не за горами! В политическом плане бурный вихрь Июльской революции привел к падению Карла X—французского короля—и его второй Реставрации; тем временем в мире искусства вот-вот будет создано нечто, чего еще никогда не видели. С одной стороны, Эрнани Гюго обновил искусство драмы—с большим шумом—с другой стороны, Берлиоз представил свою Фантастическую симфонию. Комментируя ее критическое восприятие, он написал: «Фантастическая симфония была встречена топотом и криками [...]. Это был хаос.» Что в ней такого новаторского? Автобиографические аспекты произведения, изображающие безответную любовь Берлиоза к очаровательной актрисе Гарриет Смитсон.
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At the end of the 1820s, Berlioz was inspired to write a major symphonic work. The spark came from actress Harriet Smithson, playing the role of Ophelia in a Parisian production of Hamlet. He fell madly in love with her and the Symphonie fantastique is thus a description in five acts of his consuming passion. The composer wrote a grandiose and innovative work, involving a spectacular symphonic instrumentation chasing after a recurrent theme—an “idée fixe”—for about 50 minutes of this long composition. The leitmotif represents Harriet Smithson herself, the beloved woman: it is played with a twirling energy, as in the first movement, and with a martial cadence, as in the “Marche au supplice” (“March to the scaffold”). Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique was finally finished in April 1830, and premiered in Paris in December 1830, conducted by François-Antoine Habeneck. It was an immediate success. And even if Harriet Smithson didn’t attend the premiere, she later accepted his wedding proposal in 1833…