The director, whose other films include Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, said Berlioz was "wonderfully ahead of his time".
The director of Time Bandits and Brazil will helm a production of the opera Benvenuto Cellini, by French romantic composer Hector Berlioz.
He probably would not have cared much for what the "New German School" of Berlioz, Liszt, and Wagner would later advocate and create.
Antony Beevor took the prize two years ago for Stalingrad, while last year it went to biographer David Cairns for Berlioz: Servitude and Greatness.
More through default than design, the renditions of Mozart, Massenet, and Berlioz must do the expressive work usually accomplished by imagery, narrative, and characterization.
Scottish conductor Douglas Boyd chose Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ for one of his last three concerts as artistic partner with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
And, though Berlioz's own faith was tenuous to nonexistent, a story as grand and essential as L'Enfance du Christ ("The Childhood of Christ") proved irresistible.
As a way of asserting that his medical studies (a concession to his physician father) were in vain, Berlioz threw himself out the window of a dissecting lab.
It's not surprising, in view of his many innovations in orchestral instrumentation and sonority, that Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was the first important composer to write for the tuba.
And yet the Sixth Symphony does not aspire to the level of musical realism found in a work like Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique or in Richard Strauss's later tone poems.
Parisians can be buried alongside Berlioz, Degas and Nijinsky in the cemetery at Montmartre, which was dug out of an old chalk quarry that had been used as a communal grave during the French Revolution.
"If you listen to Verdi, if you listen to Berlioz, if you listen to Mozart, if you listen to anybody else -- Bach for that matter -- who has dealt with religious music, there's always a reflection of the style of their time, " Zimmer said.
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