Theophile Gautier wrote, "Hector Berlioz seems to me to form with Hugo and Delacroix the Trinity of Romantic Art."
Hector Berlioz was born in France at La Cфte-Saint-Andrй, situated between Lyon and Grenoble.
The music of Hector Berlioz is cited as extremely influential in the development of the symphonic form, instrumentation, and the depiction of programmatic ideas — features central to Romanticism.