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    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...
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    concert overtures that are in effect the first orchestral tone poems. Les francs-juges, Op. 3. Composed 1826. The overture to Berlioz's first attempt at opera...
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  • early concert overtures were written by Hector Berlioz (e.g., Les Francs juges (1826), and Le corsaire (1828)). In the 1850s the concert overture began to...
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    Hector Berlioz (category Pupils of Jean-François Le Sueur)
    mind reappeared later as the A-flat second subject of the overture to Les Francs-juges. In March 1821 Berlioz passed the baccalauréat examination at the University...
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    of lay judges called "free judges" (German: Freischöffen or French: francs-juges). The original seat of the courts was in Dortmund. Proceedings were sometimes...
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    lost) Les francs-juges (1826–33; unperformed – survives in fragments) Benvenuto Cellini (1834–38) La Nonne sanglante [fr] (1841–47; unfinished) Les Troyens...
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    works, which were preceded on the programme by Berlioz's Overture to Les francs-juges and Schumann's Symphony No. 1, both conducted by Eduard Wachmann [ro]...
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  • music was an excerpt from the overture to Berlioz' uncompleted opera Les francs-juges. The titles for each episode featured caricatures of that week's subject...
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    Felix Mendelssohn (category Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class))
    playing, and […] only calculated for virtuosos"; of Berlioz's overture Les francs-juges "[T]he orchestration is such a frightful muddle [...] that one ought...
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    night, reconstructing music from an unfinished project, the opera Les francs-juges. The movement begins with timpani sextuplets in thirds, for which he...
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