Hector Berlioz - The Ballet of Shadows, H 37 (1829)

Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer. His output includes orchestral works such as the Symphonie fantastique and Harold in Italy, choral pieces including the Requiem and L'Enfance du Christ, his three operas Benvenuto Cellini, Les Troyens and Béatrice et Bénédict, and works of hybrid genres such as the "dramatic symphony" Roméo et Juliette and the "dramatic legend" La Damnation de Faust.

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Le ballet des ombres in C minor, “Œuvre 2” (withdrawn), H 37 "Ronde nocturne"
Librettist: Albert Du Boys (1804–1889), after Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803
Dedication: Chrétien Urhan (1890–1845)

Choeur Les Éléments accompanied and conducted by David Bismuth

The Ballet of Shadows is one of the first works composed by Hector Berlioz along with the Eight Scenes from Faust after Goethe's Faust. Composed in 1829, it was published as op. 2. Withdrawn from the catalogue of his works, transposed and orchestrated, the Ballet of Shadows is integrated into the Roman Carnival scene of Benvenuto Cellini and then, definitively and without words, into the Queen Mab Scherzo in Romeo and Juliet.
Hector Berlioz undertook the composition of the Ballet des ombres between the end of April and the beginning of September 1829