program music

Question 1

a piece of program music that tells the story of a gifted artist who, in the depths of hopelessness and despair because of his unrequited love for a woman, has poisoned himself with opiu

Answer 1

symphonie fantastique

Question 2

the fourth of five movements in the Symphonie Fantastique. The symphony as a whole tells the story, in music, of a troubled young artist and his quest for his true love.

Answer 2

march of the scaffold

Question 3

the fifth and final movement of Hector Berlioz’s programmatic work, “Symphonie Fantastique.” This movement is a wild and frenzied musical depiction of a drug-induced nightmare in which the composer imagines himself at a witch’s Sabbath.

Answer 3

dreams of witches sabbath