Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz (1803), French composer. He started to study medicine in Paris, but soon gave it up in favour of music. He married the Irish actress Henrietta Smithson in 1833 but they separated seven years later and he remarried in 1854. The most notable of the French Romantic composers, he is remembered for his Symphonie fantastique, and the choral works The Damnation of Faust and L’Enfance du Christ. He also wrote three operas and several books on music.
