Father of modern orchestration was an excitable red-headed Frenchman named Hector Berlioz, who lived in the middle 19th Century. From him such romantic composers as Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, such impressionists as Claude Debussy, learned many a trick of the trade. Erratic but forceful, Composer Berlioz, an original in his day, was insatiably concerned with orchestral instruments. He studied them all, speculated on their possibilities, wrote a book about them, dreamed of gigantic orchestras with platoons of trumpets and battalions of violins. When he composed he often wrote for large combinations of instruments. One such work is his Requiem, which demands...
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