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Nerd nerd nerd alert.
I started The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov today. One of the first characters in it is Berlioz, named for Hector Berlioz, the composer of Symphonie Fantastique.
In the novel, another character predicts that Berlioz will be beheaded.
In Symphonie, Berlioz was inspired by the invention of the guillotine. One of the movements ends with the sound effect of Berlioz's head rolling across the stage.
"It was Berlioz's severed head" are the last words in the third chapter of the novel.
How great is that?
I still need to do some research on if Rachmaninoff was inspired at all by Chekhov for one of his concert etudes [in A minor, I believe, called "sea of seagulls"]...
I started The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov today. One of the first characters in it is Berlioz, named for Hector Berlioz, the composer of Symphonie Fantastique.
In the novel, another character predicts that Berlioz will be beheaded.
In Symphonie, Berlioz was inspired by the invention of the guillotine. One of the movements ends with the sound effect of Berlioz's head rolling across the stage.
"It was Berlioz's severed head" are the last words in the third chapter of the novel.
How great is that?
I still need to do some research on if Rachmaninoff was inspired at all by Chekhov for one of his concert etudes [in A minor, I believe, called "sea of seagulls"]...