We challenge posterity to bear witness . . . we have maintained from the start that genius burned in this Frenchman . . But far be it from us to seek to impose our faith by force.
Robert Schumann
Posterity, ever since Composer Schumann's day, has been listening to the huge resounding and romantic symphonies of Hector Berlioz, and trying to decide just how good "this Frenchman" was. Today 81 years after his death, detractors of Berlioz still scorn him as a crude noisemaker who marshaled whole regiments of instruments and singers to gain...
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