Artist
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz appears once in our Romantic list, placing as high as No. 4. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.
- Ranked entries
- 1
- Appears on
- Romantic
- Year
- 1830
- Highest placing
- No. 4 in Romantic
- Updated
- 2026-08-30
Appears on
Symphonie fantastique
1830
Ranked No. 4 in Romantic
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.