Georg Solti, annotated score for Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

Georg Solti, annotated score for Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

Symphonies
Romanticism
Instrumental music
Conductors
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Living document

This annotated copy of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique was owned by Sir Georg Solti, and chronicles 19 groups of performances dating from 1959-1992. Shown here are the inside cover of the score, listing the dates and orchestra for each of the 19 performance sets, including tours and recordings; the closing page of the third movement, "In the country" (see YouTube video); and the opening of the fourth movement, "March to the scaffold."

Geolocation: Chicago's Symphony Center, the home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Solti was the orchestra's Music Director from 1969-1991, and used this score for five different sets of performances with them.

Solti, Georg, 1912-1997

Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869

Hector Berlioz. Symphonie fantastique: op. 14 (Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, c1900).
Sir Georg Solti Archive. Merritt Room Mus 628.3.64 Solti

Breitkopf & Härtel (Leipzig, Germany)

Composed in 1830; published in 1900; used in performances from 1959-1992; acquired in 2011

Annotated published score