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  "slug": "hector-berlioz",
  "name": "Hector Berlioz",
  "description": "Hector Berlioz appears once in our Romantic list, placing as high as No. 4. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-30",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/hector-berlioz/",
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  "distinctRecordings": 1,
  "years": {
    "first": 1830,
    "last": 1830
  },
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    "rank": 4,
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      "name": "Romantic",
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      "trackKey": "hector-berlioz--symphonie-fantastique",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/hector-berlioz--symphonie-fantastique/",
      "title": "Symphonie fantastique",
      "year": 1830,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "An artist takes opium, dreams he has murdered his beloved, and attends his own execution and a witches' sabbath. Written at twenty-six, three years after Beethoven died, and it sounds a century later.",
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Hector%20Berlioz%20Symphonie%20fantastique",
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        },
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}