Berlioz: "Les francs-juges" Overture, Op. 3, H 23D (with Score)

Hector Berlioz:
"Les francs-juges" Overture, Op. 3, H 23D (with Score)
Composed: 1827-28
Conductor: Charles Dutoit
Orchestra: Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
Les francs-juges (translated as "The Free Judges" or "The Judges of the Secret Court") is the title of an unfinished opera by the French composer Hector Berlioz written to a libretto by his friend Humbert Ferrand in 1826. Berlioz abandoned the incomplete composition and destroyed most of the music. He retained the overture, which has become a popular concert item, and used some other musical material in later compositions.
This was the first work Berlioz wrote solely for orchestra and it is the earliest of his compositions to retain a place in the repertoire today. It was first performed at the Paris Conservatoire on 26 May 1828 and published in 1836 (the opus number is 3). Franz Liszt prepared a piano transcription of it in 1833 (S.471).

[@gabrielgoes4568]

What a masterpiece! Excellent👏🏻👏🏻

[@valerieheinderyckx4506]

Superbe..!

[@christianwouters6764]

Berlioz detested the music by Rossini, but funny to see elements of his style in this early work. At a certain moment it ressembles the Guillaume Tell overture !

[@Gonzol7]

That Rossini crescendo, for one thing, yes!

[@Boccaccio1811]

I think the William Tell overture was one of the few thing Berlioz liked from Rossini

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[@valerietaylor9615]

The score is too small to read easily. Also, which orchestra and conductor performed this? This is one of my favorite pieces by Berlioz. He rejected the rest of the opera this was written for, but used parts of the score in his “Sinfonie Fantastique” (i.e. the March to the Scaffold.)