The French romantic composer Hector Berlioz produced significant musical and literary works. Berlioz composed mainly in the genres of opera, symphonies, choral pieces and songs. As well as these, Berlioz also produced several works that fit into hybrid genres, such as the "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette and Harold in Italy, a symphony with a large solo part for viola. Berlioz's compositions are listed both by genre and by the catalogue developed by the musicologist D. Kern Holoman. Opus numbers were assigned to compositions when they published. However, they were only given to a fraction of Berlioz's work and are not in chronological order. Berlioz's writings include memoirs, technical studies and music criticism.
Musical compositions by genre Many of Berlioz's works resist easy categorisation and assigning them to a genre is often impossible. The genres given below should be regarded as merely a guideline.
Orchestral works Symphonies Symphonie fantastique (1830) Harold en Italie (1834) Roméo et Juliette (1839) Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale (1840)
Overtures
(1828) (1831) (1831) (1844) (1844) Marche Troyenne (1864)
Concertante work (Romance for violin and orchestra) (1841)
Choral and orchestral works Operas Estelle et Némorin (1823; lost) Les francs-juges (1826–33; unperformed – survives in fragments) Benvenuto Cellini (1834–38) (1841–47; unfinished) Les Troyens (1856–58; final three acts performed 1863) Béatrice et Bénédict (1860–62)
Oratorios La damnation de Faust (1845–46) L'enfance du Christ (1850–54)
Sacred works Messe solenelle (1824) Resurrexit (1828) Chant sacré (1829) Quartetto e coro dei maggi (1832) (1835) Grande messe des morts (Requiem) (1837) Prière du matin (1846) Te Deum (1849) Meditation religieuse (1849) Hymne pour la consécration du nouveau tabernacle (1859) Veni creator (?1861–68) Tantum ergo (?1861–68)
Secular works (1825) Le ballet des ombres (1829; withdrawn) (1828–29) Chant guerrier (1829) Chanson à boire (1829) Lélio, ou le retour à la vie (1831) (1834) Les chant des Bretons (1835) (1839) Tristia (1831–44) Hymne à la France (1844) Le Chant des chemins de fer (1846) La menace des Francs (1848) L’impériale (1854)
Prix de Rome cantatas
(1827) (1828) (1829) (1830; mostly lost)
Songs La dépit de la bergère (?1818–22) Le maure jaloux (?1818–22) Amitié reprends ton empire (?1818–22) Pleure, pauvre Colette (?1818–22) Canon libre à quinte (?1818–22) Le montagnard exilé (?1822–23) Toi qui l'aimas, verse des pleurs (?1822–23)
Nocturne (?1828) Le pêcheur (?1828) Le roi de Thulé (1828) (1829) La captive (1832) Je crois en vous (1834) Chansonette (1835) Les nuits d'été (1841) La mort d'Ophélie (1842) Fleurs des landes (1850) Feuillets d'album (1850)
Chamber music Albumleaf for piano (1844) Hymne pour l’élévation in D major for organ (1844) Sérénade agreste à la Madone sur le thème des pifferari romains in E flat major for organ (1844) Toccata in C major for organ (1844)
Arrangements J. J. B. Pollet: Fleure du Tage (?1817) Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle: La Marseillaise (1830) Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle: Chant du neuf Thermidor (1830) Ferdinand Huber: Sur les alpes quel délice (1833) Carl Maria von Weber : Recitatives for Der Freischütz (1841) Carl Maria von Weber: L’invitation à la valse (1841) Leopold de Meyer: Marche marocaine (1845) Traditional: Marche de Rákóczi (1846) Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orphée (1859) J. P. E. Martini: Plaisir d’amour (1859) Franz Schubert: Erlkönig (1860) Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste (1861) François Couperin: Invitation à louer Dieu (?1861–68)
Works by Holoman number This is a list of works by Holoman number, from the Catalogue of the works of Hector Berlioz (1987) by D. Kern Holoman, the 25th volume Bärenreiter's New Berlioz edition (1967–2006) [NBE]. The volume number that the work appears in the NBE is given. Many works exist in multiple versions for different forces. Opus numbers are also given for those works that have them. (The bracketed opus numbers 27 and 29 were suggested by Richard Pohl.)
Extant works HUnless stated otherwise all information comes from the New Grove Music Dictionary article on Berlioz: Op. Title, genre Composed Premiere Notes NBE5Fleure du Tage?1817Guitar accompaniment to music by Pollet22b7Le dépit de la bergère, romance?1818–22158Guitar accompaniment for romances?1818–21for various composers22b9Le maure jaloux, romance?1818–22two versions, also entitled L’arabe jaloux1510Amitié, reprends ton empire, romance et invocation?1818–22two versions1511Pleure, pauvre Colette, romance?1818–221514Canon libre à la quinte?1818–221515Le montagnard exilé, chant élégiaque?1822–231516Toi qui l’aimas, verse des pleurs, romance?1822–231520AMesse solennelle182410 July 1825withdrawn 1827; rediscovered 19922320BResurrexit182426 May 1828arranged from Messe solennelle; largely absorbed into Benvenuto Cellini, Grande messe des morts and Te Deum12a21, scène héroïque1825–2626 May 182821A for chorus and orchestra, 21B for chorus and military band12a22Fugue1826Prix de Rome submission6233Fragments of Les francs-juges, drame lyrique1825–26overture and movements 7 and 11 on 26 MayFive complete movements extant425, monologue et bacchanale1827Performance planned for 26 May 1828 but cancelledPrix de Rome cantata6261, grande ouverture1827–2826 May 18282029, scène lyrique1828Prix de Rome cantata631Nocturne?1825–3022b3311828–291 November 1829withdrawn by Berlioz; later used in La damnation de Faust533b1/6Le roi de Thulé, chanson gothique1828for soprano and piano1535Fugue à trois sujets1829Prix de Rome submission636, scène lyrique18291 August 1829Prix de Rome cantata6372Le ballet des ombres, ronde nocturne1828withdrawn by Berlioz143821829H39–47392/1Le coucher du soleil, rêverie182918 February 183015402/2, ballade182915412/3Chant guerrier18295 December 18301442A2/4, ballade182915432/5Chanson à boire182914442/6Chant sacré182918 February 183014452/7L’origine de la harpe, ballade182915462/8Adieu Bessy, romance anglaise et française182915472/9Elégie en prose1829154814Symphonie fantastique, épisode de la vie d’un artiste18305 December 18301651Hymne des Marseillais1830Two versions22b51bisChant du neuf Thermidor1830arrangement of music by Rouget de Lisle22b52Ouverture pour la Tempête de Shakespeare18307 November 1830later incorporated into Lélio7534, grande ouverture183122 December 18332054Intrata di Rob-Roy Macgregor183114 April 1833withdrawn205514bisLélio, ou Le retour à la vie, monodrame lyrique1831–329 December 1832sequel to Symphonie fantastique756b18/1Méditation religieuse1831part of Tristia H119; original version lost12b59Quartetto e coro dei maggi1832possibly rev. of lost Marche religieuse des mages, 182812a6012, orientale183230 December 18321564Sur les alpes quel délice (le chasseur de chamois)18336 June 1833Arrangement of music by Ferdinand Huber22b6513/4183322 December 1833also part of Fleurs des landes156719/2Les champs, romance1834rev. in Feuillets d’album (1850)156816Harold en Italie183423 November 1834176911, ballade18349 November 1834rev. 1850 from lost original12a70Je crois en vous, romance1834used in Benvenuto Cellini157113/5Le chant des bretons1834rev. as Fleurs des landes, no.51573Chansonette1835used for the Choeur de masques in Benvenuto Cellini15746183522 November 1835refrain composed 183212a755Grande messe des morts (Requiem)18375 December 183797623Benvenuto Cellini, opera semiseria1836–3810 September 1838Libretto: L. de Wailly, A. Barbier and A. de Vigny1781839137917Roméo et Juliette, symphonie dramatique183924 November 1839188015Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale184026 July 184019817Les nuits d'été1840–41originally for voice and piano, later orchestrated1582Villanellepart of Les nuits d’été83Le spectre de la rosepart of Les nuits d’été84Sur les lagunes, lamentopart of Les nuits d’été85Absencepart of Les nuits d’été86Au cimetière, clair de lunepart of Les nuits d’été87L’ile inconnuepart of Les nuits d’été888, romance18411 February 1842from air composed for Benvenuto Cellini2189Le Freyschütz18417 June 1841opera by Weber with dialogue composed to recitative22b90L’invitation à la valse18411 February 1842orchestration of original by Weber22b9218/2La mort d’Ophélie1842part of Tristia H119159419/5La belle Isabeau, conte pendant l’orage1843also part of Feuillets d’album H12115959Le carnaval romain, ouverture caractéristique18443 February 1844on material from Benvenuto Cellini209720/2Hymne à la France18441 August 1844part of Vox Populi H12012b98Sérénade agreste à la Madone sur le thème des pifferari romains1844part of 2199Toccata1844part of Trois morceaux for orgue-mélodium21100Hymne pour l’élévation1844part of Trois morceaux for orgue-mélodium2110121Le corsaire, ouverture184419 January 18452010318/3Marche funèbre pour la dernière scène d’Hamlet1844part of Tristia H11912104A19/6Le chasseur danois1845April 1846 also part of Feuillets d’album H12115105Marche marocaine18456 April 1845arrangement of music by Léopold de Meyer22b10719/1Zaïde, boléro184529 November 1845also part of Feuillets d’album H12115109Marche de Rákóczi184615 February 1846arrangement of traditional; used in La damnation de Faust22b11019/3Le Chant des chemins de fer, cantata184614 June 1846also part of Feuillets d’album H12112b It11124La damnation de Faust, légende dramatique1845–466 December 1846incorporating rev. versions of Huit scènes de Faust811219/4Prière du matin1846also part of Feuillets d’album H1211411313/3Le trébuchet1846also part of Fleurs des landes1511720/1La menace des Francs, marche et choeur184825 March 1851part of Vox Populi H12012b11822Te Deum184930 April 18551011918Tristia1831–44collection of 3 previous works12b12020Vox Populi1849collection of 2 previous works12b12119Feuillets d’album1850collection of 6 previous works12413Fleurs des landes1850collection of five mélodies1512926L'impériale, cantata185415 November 185512b13025L'enfance du Christ, trilogie sacrée1850–5410 December 185411133Les Troyens, grand opera1856–584 November 1863libretto by Berlioz after Virgil's Aeneid2133BMarche Troyenne1864arr. from Act 1 of Les Troyens21134Plaisir d'amour185923 April 1859arrangement of music by JPE Martini22b135Hymne pour la consécration du nouveau tabernacle185914136Erlkönig186027 August 1860orchestration of lieder by Schubert22b13728186114138Béatrice et Bénédict, opéra comique1860–629 August 1862libretto by Berlioz after Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing3141Veni creator, motet?1861–6814142Tantum ergo, motet?1861–6814143Invitation à louer Dieu?1861–68arrangement of music by François Couperin22b
Lost works H Title, genre Composed Notes1Potpourri concertant sur des thèmes italiensc.18182-32 quintetsc.18186Estelle et Némorin, songs182312Le cheval arabe, cantata1822–2313Canon à trois voix1822–2317Estelle et Némorin, opera182318Le passage de la mer rouge, oratorio in Latin182319Beverley ou Le joueur, dramatic scene182424Fugue1827Prix de Rome submission27Marche religieuse des mages182830Variations for guitar on Mozart's Là ci darem la mano182832O salutaris1828–2934Chanson de pirates182949Fugue1830Prix de Rome submission501830Prix de Rome cantata57Choeur de toutes les voix183158Choeur d’anges pour les fêtes de Noël183161Le Dernier Jour du monde, oratorio183163La Chasse de Lützow 1831arrangement of music by Weber66Romance de Marie Tudor183372Fête musicale funèbre à la mémoire des hommes illustres de la France1835102Scène de la comédie1844One of three movements intended as incidental music for a production of Hamlet108Marche d’Isly1845arrangement of music by Léopold de Meyer115Chant du départ1848arrangement of music by Étienne Méhul116Mourons pour la patrie1848arrangement of music by Rouget de Lisle
Unfinished works H23C Le Cri de guerre du Brisgaw intermezzo in one act based on Les francs-juges (1833–34) H61 Le Dernier Jour du monde oratorio (1831–33) H72 Fête musicale funèbre à la mémoire des hommes illustres de la France (1835)