The Myth of Orpheus from a Romantic Perspective Franz Liszt and Hector Berlioz
The Myth of Orpheus from a Romantic Perspective Franz Liszt and Hector Berlioz

Summary/Abstract: The present paper attempts to highlight the link between Christoph Willibald Gluck and two other major composers of the Romantic period, Franz Liszt and Hector Berlioz. The research focuses on the particular influence of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice upon the two composers. Each of them has undertaken a different approach of the myth in their own outputs, taking as model both the Ancient myth and the famous work of Gluck. The Romantic cultural context is also taken into account. The two composers had opposite ways of referring to Gluck’s masterpiece as they had been put in a similar situation, particularly that of reviving Gluckian Orfeo ed Euridice, almost a century after its premiere, in two major European cultural cities: Weimar and Paris.

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