Berlioz abandons murder for the pleasures of Nice
Mar 18, 2021
2 minutes
‘My idea was to rush back to Paris, in order to mercilessly kill two guilty women and an innocent man. Having done that, I would, of course, proceed to kill myself.’ Over-wrought emotions, from the pages of a melodramatic romantic novel? No. The lines are from Hector Berlioz’s , and are in essence true – at one point in his psychologically turbulent young
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