| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Written in 1830 when the composer was a stage-struck 27-year-old, it owed its inspiration to his desire to emulate Beethoven by producing a large-scale unified work of lyrical and dramatic weight; to his intense admiration of Shakespeare, whose Hamlet was then on the boards in Paris; and to his unrequited passion for the Ophelia of the production, an Irish actress named Harriet Smithson.
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