Berlioz, Louis-Hector
(1803–1869)> COMPOSER
Berlioz, Louis-Hector (11 December 1803, La Côte-Saint-André; 8 March 1869, Paris), composer, came to Paris in 1821 to study medicine and to follow in his father’s footsteps as a physician, but a visit to the Opéra one evening to hear Les Danaïdes made such an impression upon him that he returned to the theatre the following week to attend a performance of Etienne Méhul ’s Stratonice and Louis Persuis ’ Nina (see eighteenth-century volume for Les Danaïdes. Mehul, Persuis, and Nina). He was…