This page displays engravings, photos and portraits of Berlioz, and those of members of his family and colleagues, friends and other people who were closely associated with him. The album also includes pictures of writers and poets who inspired some of his works, and of composers whose music he admired.

Unless otherwise stated, all the pictures in the Berlioz Photo Album pages have been scanned from engraving, prints and 19th and early 20th century books and documents in our own collection. All rights reserved.

Copyright notice: The texts, photos, images and musical scores on all pages of this site are covered by UK Law and International Law. All rights of publication or reproduction of this material in any form, including Web page use, are reserved. Their use without our explicit permission is illegal.

Last update: 1 February 2010

A red asterisk (*) in front of an item indicates an addition since the previous update.

Photo Album

Berlioz

1. Portraits and photos painted or taken between early 1830s and late 1860s, 
    presented in chronological order:

    1830-1839

    1840-1849

    1850-1859

    1860-1863

    1864-1865

    1865

    1867-1868

    1869 – Berlioz’s death mask

2. Posthumous portraits:

    1884

    1893-1897

    1967-1968

    1989-2006 and 2009-2010*

    2006-2008


Berlioz’s family

    Parental and marital families (grandfather, father, sisters, nieces, brother-in-law, uncle, much loved family house-keeper, first and second wives, son)

Friends, acquaintances, colleagues and other people associated with Berlioz

    Friends, acquaintances and others (1) (Humbert Ferrand – a “friend for life”)

    Friends, acquaintances and others (2) (Bertin family, Fornier (Estelle), Gautier, Janin, Lesueur, Liszt, Moke, Viardot, de Vigny, Sayn-Wittgenstein)*

    Friends, acquaintances and others (3) (Auber, Bénazet, Charton-Demeur, Cherubini, Fétis, Girard, Habeneck)

    Friends, acquaintances and others (4) (Balzac, Carvalho, Hainl, Paganini, Stasov, Thomas, Wagner)

    Friends, acquaintances and others (5) (Branchu, Jullien, Madame Patti, Sax, Vernet [Horace and Louise])

    Friends, acquaintances and others (6) (Heller, Hiller, Legouvé, d’Ortigue, Saint-Saëns, Sand)

    Friends, acquaintances and others (7) (Astruc, David, Hallé, Hamerik, Hanslick, Joachim)

    Friends, acquaintances and others (8) (von Bülow, Deschamps, Griepenkerl, Heine)

Composers, writers and poets whose works Berlioz admired and drew inspiration from

    Composers (Beethoven, Glinka, Gluck, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Spontini, Weber)

    Writers and poets (Byron, Goethe, Hugo, Schiller, Scott, Shakespeare, Virgil)

European royalty and nobility associated with Berlioz

    Royalty and nobility (1)  (Germany)

    Royalty and nobility (2)  (Great Britain, Germany)

    Royalty and nobility (3)  (France)

Related pages on this site:

Berlioz Biography

Berlioz Mémoires (in the original French)

Berlioz Music Scores

Predecessors and Contemporaries

The Hector Berlioz Website was created by Monir Tayeb and Michel Austin on 18 July 1997;
Berlioz Photo Album created by Monir Tayeb and Michel Austin on 3 December 1997; substantial reorganisations and additions made since.

© 1997-2010 (unless otherwise stated) Monir Tayeb and Michel Austin for all the texts and images on Berlioz Photo Album pages.
All rights of reproduction reserved.

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