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''Symphonie fantastique: Épisode de la vie d'un artiste ... en cinq parties'' (''Fantastical Symphony: An Episode in the Life of an Artist, in Five Parts'') Op. 14 is a program symphony written by the French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830. It is an important piece of the early Romantic period, and is popular with concert audiences worldwide. The first performance was at the Paris Conservatoire in December 1830. Leonard Bernstein described the symphony as the first musical expedition into psychedelia because of its hallucinatory and dream-like nature, and because history suggests Berlioz composed at least a portion of it under the influence of opium. According to Bernstein, 'Berlioz tells it like it is. You take a trip, you wind up screaming at your own funeral.'〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leonard Bernstein -- Young People's Concerts )〕〔Leonard Bernstein, Young People's Concerts, Amadeus Press (2006)〕 In 1831, Berlioz wrote a lesser known sequel to the work, ''Lélio'', for actor, orchestra and chorus. Franz Liszt made a piano transcription of the symphony in 1833 (S.470). ==Instrumentation== The score calls for a total of over 90 instruments, the most of any symphony written to that time. Specifically: *2 flutes (one doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (one doubling cor anglais), 2 soprano clarinets (one doubling E♭ clarinet), 4 bassoons *4 horns, 2 cornets, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones (alto, tenor, and bass), 2 ophicleides (modern performances generally have tubas playing these parts) *2 pairs of timpani, cymbals, suspended cymbal, tenor drum, bass drum, bells (sounding C and G) *2 harps *strings (Berlioz specified at least 15 1st violins, 15 2nd violins, 10 violas, 11 celli and 9 basses on the score) Though the ''Symphonie fantastique'' calls for only a fairly large orchestra, such conductors as Zubin Mehta and Gustavo Dudamel have conducted performances of the work with orchestras of over 200 players. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Symphonie fantastique」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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