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Hector Berlioz was born on December 11th, 1803 in La Cote St Andre, France.
艾克托尔·路易·柏辽兹于1803年12月11日出生在法国的圣安德烈。
Berlioz's father, a provincial French doctor, originally intended for his son to follow in his footsteps and sent him to medical school in Paris.
柏辽兹的父亲是法国外省的一名医生，他最初打算让儿子继承自己的事业，把柏辽兹送到了巴黎的医学院。
However, according to Berlioz, he was so disturbed by the horrifying scene within the dissecting room that he leaped out of the window and never turned back.
然而，根据柏辽兹所说，他被解剖室里的恐怖场景吓坏了，之后从窗户跳了出去便再也没有回头。
He eventually began studying music, first privately and then at the Paris Conservatoire.
最后他开始学习音乐，起初是跟着私人老师学习，后来进入巴黎音乐学院。
Even though he himself only played the guitar, Berlioz was an outstanding master of orchestration.
柏辽兹自己虽然只会弹吉他，但他却是一位杰出的管弦乐大师。
In 1844, he authored the "Modern Treatise of Instrumentation and of Orchestration", an important and influential work on the subject of orchestration.
1844年，他撰写了《现代器乐与管弦乐论著》，一部讲管弦乐的重要而有影响力的作品。
In 1827, while attending a performance of Shakespeare's "Hamlet", Berlioz immediately fell in love with both the works of William Shakespeare,
1827年，在观看莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》时，柏辽兹很快爱上了威廉·莎士比亚的作品，
and with the Irish actress playing the role of Ophelia, Harriet Smithson.
同时也爱上了扮演奥菲莉亚的爱尔兰女演员哈丽特·史密森。
His passionate, impulsive personality led him to compose the extraordinary program symphony,
他热情、冲动的个性令他创作了非凡的标题交响曲
"Symphonie Fantastique" in which "the beloved" is portrayed as a melodic motif. Berlioz called this the idee fixe.
《幻想交响曲》，其中“心爱的人”被描绘成旋律主题。柏辽兹称之为“固定观念”。
"Les Troyens", an opera in two parts now regarded as Berlioz's masterpiece, was initially a huge failure and was not performed in its entirety in French until 1969.
如今被奉为柏辽兹杰作的《特洛伊人》起初是非常失败的，直到1969年才全部用法语进行演唱。
Berlioz spent his final years clouded in depression and ill-health, listening to little music and composing nothing at all.
柏辽兹在抑郁和健康状况不佳的阴影中度过了他最后几年的时光，他很少听音乐，也没有创作任何作品，
He died on March 8th, 1869 in Paris, France at the age of 65.
于1869年3月8日在法国巴黎去世，享年65岁。
