Most of the time the _moderato_ was interpreted as an _allegro_, and the _andante maestro_ as a simple _moderato_.

If the terrific fanfare did not become, as some one ventured to call it, a "Setting Out for the Hunt," it might well have been the accompaniment for a sovereign's entrance to his capital.

In order to give this fanfare its grandiose character, the author did not take easy refuge in the wailings of a minor key, but he burst into the splendors of a major key.

A certain grandeur of movement alone can preserve its gigantesque quality and impression of power.
Granting all his good intentions, in trying to give us a suggestion of the last judgment by his accumulation of brass, drums, cymbals, and tam-tams, Berlioz makes us think of Thor among the giants trying to empty the drinking-horn which was filled from the sea, and only succeeding in lowering it a little.

Yet even that was an accomplishment.
Berlioz spoke scornfully of Mozart's _Tuba Mirum_ with its single trombone.