Franz Kerschbaumer

The 'symphonie Fantastique' (Episode in the life of an artist) was heard for the first time in Paris on 5 December 1830. Still we can feel the beating of the creator's heart at every performance. In t...

Berlioz's most famous Romantic Era standard, 'Symphony Fantastique' is a colorful, evocative musical masterpiece that continues to withstand the test of time, pleasing all audiences. In this transcrip...

Berlioz considered it very important that listeners should understand the program of the cycle of five movements which made make up his most famous 'Symphonie Fantastique', so he insisted that audienc...

La Damnation de Faust was in the beginning a kind of oratorio, although Hector Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) called it himself a concert-opera. To place the Hungarian March in the piece, Hector Berlioz s...

Lange Zeit galt der Komponist Theodor Rupprecht (1873-1934) in Blasmusikkreisen als Österreicher. Weshalb, das konnte niemand so genau sagen. Bei einer genaueren Recherche entpuppte sich allerdings de...