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The romantic era occurred between the seventeen hundreds and the eighteen hundreds.
It was a time of political change and cultural change, and focused on expression and story telling as well as romance. Other composers seen in the “romantic era” include:
•Beethoven
•Grieg
•Wagner
•F.Schubert

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The “romantic era” brought many new musical features to life, including:
Program music: Program music is, music which tells a story, this music will have a back story and you can usually create a clear picture in your head whilst listening to it.
Large orchestra’s: Using larger orchestras to make a more diverse and interesting sound became very popular during this period.
The Modern Grand Piano: The “romantic era” saw the rise of the modern grand piano, which is still popular today.
Form: During this time composers continued to use “symphony” as well as adapting “concerto” and songs”.
Dynamic range: Dynamic, or large range included range of notes as well as key, instruments and themes.
Mood/Character: Representing a particular story line, or setting the tone/feeling of the  piece .

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Berlioz, or Hector Berlioz was French born composer during the time of “The Romantic Era”.

Berlioz was born in France, in “La Côte St-André”.

His father was a doctor, and because of this he received early education.

As a child he studied flute and guitar, he also thought himself other aspects of music, including composition and harmony.

Berlioz was 12 when he first fell in love with Estelle Duboeuf, who influenced many of his early compositions.

Berlioz originally studied medicine to please his father but later abandoned them to peruse music.

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Symphonie Fantastique is a symphony composed by Berlioz, which he began as a teenager but didn’t finish until 1830. It has 5 movement rather than the typical 4.

The story of Symphonie Fantastique is dream like, And many think it is based on dreams surrounding  his obsession Irish actor Harriet
Smithson.

1st Movement, passions :The first movement depicts the joy and passion Berlioz felt when he met Smithson.
2nd Movement, Un bal : The movement begins with a sense of anticipation, showing a ball and the evening playing out, it has a sense of expensive and joy.
3rd Movement, scènes aux champs: The Movement begins calm and shows Berlioz dreaming of Shepard’s in a field, however he soon begins to worry about Smithson and whether or not she may betray him, which causes him to have a dark premonition in his dream.
4th Movement, marche au supplice: This Movement has a darker theme and in this, Berlioz gives up on his love and takes a poison. Although it is too weak to kill him, it sends him into a coma, where he in-visions himself, killing his love. Which he is sentenced to death for.
5th Movement, songe d’une nuit du sabbat:
In this movement he finds himself at a witches sabbath.

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Instruments used in Symphonie Fantastique

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Instruments used in Symphonie Fantastique

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The score calls for a total of over 90 instruments:

Woodwind:

2 flutes (one doubling piccolo)

2 oboes (one doubling cor anglais) (in movement III, the first oboist plays briefly offstage)

2 clarinets (one doubling E♭ clarinet)

4 bassoon
Brass:

4 horns

2 cornets

2 trumpets

3 trombones

2 ophicleides (modern performances use tubas)

Percussion:

4 timpani (played by four players)

cymbals

snare drum (used in movement IV)

bass drum

bells in C and G

Strings

2 harps (used in movement II)

Violins I, II

Violas

Celli

Double basses

Berlioz specified at least 15 1st violins, 15 2nd violins, 10 violas, 11 celli and 9 basses on the score.