- First performed in 1834
- Solo viola and orchestra
- Commissioned by Nicolo Paganini. However, he never performed it as the solo viola part was not sufficiently difficult
- This is the third movement of a four-movement symphony
- Symphony is programmatic - depicts a poem by Lord Byron
- Features an ideé fixe - a technique already used by Berlioz in Symphony Fantastique (1830)
- Ideé fixe symbolises the character of Harold and appears in all movements
- It is first heard in bar 65 in the solo viola
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