Nothing shows the relentless passage of time like a new Internet Historian upload.

If you think the Berlioz story is insane it goes even deeper. He was so obsessed with Harriet at one point that he used to stalk her, book hotel rooms next to her so he could spy on her. His first mental breakdown was when he found out she was having an affair with her manager. And the reason why she didn’t reply to his letters and why they eventually divorced is because he spoke French and she spoke English, they literally couldn’t understand each other the entire time. The only reason she acc agreed to marry him is because he poisoned himself infront of her, she then in shock said she’d marry him, then he whipped out the antidote from his pocket. The fucking OG gaslighter. Also I’m a musician and I wish you would’ve talked about the 20th century cos there was some pretty crazy stuff that went on then but great vid!

Honestly can't tell if Historian genuinely became passionate about the theatre and wanted to share it with us or if he's just been too deep into Wikipedia again

I love the fact that these classical musicians were every bit as insane as 70s and 80s rockstars. If you said that the story about the devil coming to a musician in a dream or the dressing up like a maid murder suicide plot were something Ozzy Osborne did, no one would blink and eye.

You mean you can watch people act and sing without an internet connection? I swear man you're making this stuff up.

I love how Internet Historian is slowly morphing into just Historian

"I'd smash my tools if I could make the art as it is in my head" is a sentiment i have seen in every artist i've ever known regardless of medium

"But sir, we're supposed to do penis inspection day today." has to be the most juvenile thing to ever make me laugh aloud.

“Everyone told him to quit music, but he just wouldn’t hear it!” My goodness, that’s perfect. Lol

The moral of Berlioz’s story is if you love someone enough, all you have to do is: - get rejected by them many times - write a song about them - fall in love with someone else - get cheated on by them - plot to kill them, their lover and their mother for some reason, along with killing yourself - fail to do any of that and go home - smoke opium and write more songs - have her attend your concert and fall in love with you And for good measure, cheat on her with the housemaid.

Kinda crazy how this man can virtually disappear for half a year to a year and come back and drop a video and get over a million views in less then 24 hours

Unironically, this is the most bizarre and disorganized internet historian video to date. Man couldn’t follow a topic for more than a couple of minutes and it was just a total fever dream. What a call from grace honestly Subscribed

"When I die, spread my ashes into an unsuspecting crowd" An agent of chaos to the very end

Harriet: I feel nothing for Berlioz. everybody enjoys his performance Harriet: People love him. I’m people. I love Berlioz.

As an audio engineer with 2 decades experience in live theatre... this is 100% accurate.

NEON GENESIS EVANGELION IS PSYCHOLOGICAL AND INTENSE

Berlioz’s plan had me in tears. History is incredible, not even the best comedy writer could come up with something so hilarious.

This feels like an Internet Historian video I would watch in a dream

This video perfectly encapsulates the "scrolling through Wikipedia at 5 a.m. while your wife is asleep next to you and when she wakes up you're going to tell her everything you learned in a manic sleep deprived state," experience.

I think Internet Historian's videos are the most paused ones for me, cause the little tid-bits written here and there for a moment just makes it 100x better