Art and Literature: Before becoming a famous composer, what field did Berlioz originally study?

Louis-Hector Berlioz, better known as simply Berlioz, was a French Romantic composer and conductor, but he actually studied medicine in 1821 in Paris. Only after leaving Paris and abandoning his dreams of working in medicine did he turn his attention to music.

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