Berlioz - La Marseillaise
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The best French classical music for Bastille Day
6. Berlioz - La Marseillaise
You can't get much more French than the national anthem of France. Written by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792, it was arranged by the patriotic French composer Hector Berlioz in 1830, for soprano, chorus and orchestra.