La Damnation de Faust

Berlioz was only loosely inspired by Goethe's Faust drama, which he had already read in the popular French prose translation by Gérard de Nerval in the 1820s and set to music with great enthusiasm in 1829 for his later withdrawn opus 1 Huit scènes de Faust . Berlioz drew on some of these compositions, such as Marguerite's song Le roi de Thulé (The King of Thule), for the setting of La Damnation de Faust .