Wagner - Tristan & Isolde Strauss - Elektra Mahler 5 Brahms 1 Liszt - B minor sonata Nielsen 1 Schumann - Fantasy in C Chopin - Piano Sonata no. 3 Sibelius 6 Schönberg - Verklärte Nacht Very German, and that's with me excluding Beethoven and Schubert (op. 109 and String Quintet). Answer from GenericBullshit on reddit.com
Wagner - Tristan & Isolde Strauss - Elektra Mahler 5 Brahms 1 Liszt - B minor sonata Nielsen 1 Schumann - Fantasy in C Chopin - Piano Sonata no. 3 Sibelius 6 Schönberg - Verklärte Nacht Very German, and that's with me excluding Beethoven and Schubert (op. 109 and String Quintet). Answer from GenericBullshit on reddit.com
Reddit
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r/classicalmusic on Reddit: What are your top 10 favorite Romantic era pieces?
May 24, 2021 - I can't compile a full list, but, as pianist, I can say that my favourite Romantic era piece is the fourth Chopin ballade in F-minor op.52, and at the second place, my favourite piano concert, Schumann in A minor, op.54.
Wikipedia
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Romantic music - Wikipedia
2 weeks ago - Important examples include Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner and Bagatelle sans tonalité by Franz Liszt. This limit was finally reached during the Late Romantic period where progressive tonality is demonstrated in the works of composers such as Gustav Mahler, and the early works of Arnold ...
What are some defining characteristics of Romantic era music?
Romantic music can most succinctly be characterized as an exploration of extremes. Tempo fluctuation, dynamics, instrument range, orchestral size, instrumental variety, and harmonic complexity. It was a growth from and rebuke of the constraints of the Classical period, which was itself a rebuke of the excesses of the Baroque. More on reddit.com
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January 22, 2019OPINION: The Romantic Period could be split into 2 seperate periods.
Hate to tell you this but the terms "Early Romantic" and "Late Romantic" are already in common use. More on reddit.com
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March 13, 2024Absolute Music: something everyone should know
I think that along with absolute music, composers should realize that non-absolute music doesn't have to be about expressing the emotional state of the composer or even about the composer communicating an emotional state. Program music can be about something without emotional expression or communication ever being intended by the composer. The third movement of Satie's masterpiece, Socrate, is the death of Socrates. But Satie chose the driest translation he could find and did not attempt to do anything musically to express the inherent drama of the situation (he also wrote it for a single female voice to do all the parts (all the parts being male characters)). The music is just there. It is amazing music but does not try to emotionally manipulate the listener in spite of the subject matter. Part of the scourge of the Romantic myth of composition is that everything has to be emotionally overwrought in order to be music or at least good music. We composers don't need to buy into that lie. More on reddit.com
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June 29, 2021What makes romantic era music so romantic?
Contrapuntally voicelead chromatic extended harmonies. (actually I have no idea and I'm not sure there's an answer to your question) More on reddit.com
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50 Best of Romantic Classical Music - YouTube
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Spotify
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The History of Romantic Era Music (100 Famous Songs) - Compilation by Various Artists | Spotify
December 4, 2015 - Listen to The History of Romantic Era Music (100 Famous Songs) on Spotify · compilation · Various Artists · 2015 · 100 songs
Music Theory Academy
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Romantic Period Music - Music Theory Academy
January 24, 2019 - Beethoven, Liszt and Debussy also wrote programme music. For example, in Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, the woodwind instruments are used to imitate the sound of birds. Vocal music maintained its popularity in the Romantic period.
University of Kansas School of Music
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Romantic Era Sample Listening List | School of Music
Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire Messiaen: Quatour pour le fin de temps Stockhausen: Gruppen Terry Riley: In C Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians Caroline Shaw: Partita for 8 Voices
Quora
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What are some examples of music from the Romantic Era? - Quora
You've got Beethoven at the very beginning but you get some really fun, and recognizable, stuff from: Rossini - The Barber of Seville and Guillaume Tell (Both have famous and moving overtures) Franz Schubert - Brill...
Classic FM
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The 10 most romantic pieces of classical music - Classic FM
February 11, 2025 - The ‘Pas de deux’ from The Nutcracker delivers oodles of romance. As the Sugar Plum Fairy and her prince express their love through ballet steps, Tchaikovsky gives us a dreamlike harp, and gorgeous cascading, legato strings. What could be more romantic?
MasterClass
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Romantic Period Music Guide: 5 Iconic Romantic Composers - 2025 - MasterClass
Programmatic music—where instrumental music tells a story—was popular from Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique (a symphonic poem) all the way to twentieth-century composers like the German master Richard Strauss, whose Symphonia Domestica is a hallmark of programmatic music. Influence on opera: Opera, with its innate emotional heft, became an obvious match for the Romantic period.
Get Kids Into Music
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An Introduction to Early Romantic Music – a Playlist
August 17, 2021 - There are so many to choose from that I have split this period into two separate playlists, the Early Romantic and the Late Romantic/Impressionist periods. This first post covers Early Romantic composers. I have sought out music that I think would be most appealing to children, but with such a busy period inevitably there will be loads of music and composers I have left out.
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The Romantic Period – Liberty Park Music
The most common type of Mass to be written during the Romantic period was the Requiem Mass, also known as the Mass for the Dead. Many composers of time provided at least one Requiem Mass as part of their catalogue of works. In connection to the political changes happening during the period, many composers took part in political movements and wrote pieces to celebrate their country or national identity. Such pieces are a part of the movement known as Nationalism. One musical example of Nationalism is Bedřich Smetana’s cycle of six symphonic poems titled Má Vlast (or, My Homeland).
Britannica
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Romanticism - Emotion, Expression, Imagination | Britannica
1 month ago - The possibilities for dramatic expressiveness in music were augmented both by the expansion and perfection of the instrumental repertoire and by the creation of new musical forms, such as the lied, nocturne, intermezzo, capriccio, prelude, and mazurka. The Romantic spirit often found inspiration in poetic texts, legends, and folk tales, and the linking of words and music either programmatically or through such forms as the concert overture and incidental music is another distinguishing feature of Romantic music.
Classic FM
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Romantic - Periods & Genres - Discover Music - Classic FM
Liszt was one of the greatest of his time, and wrote demanding piano music to show off his own brilliance. Chopin is also among the outstanding composer-performers from this time. In the world of opera, cue the entrance of Verdi in the middle of the Romantic era.
Study.com
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Romantic Era Music | Facts, Characteristics & Composers - Lesson | Study.com
December 31, 2015 - Explore the characteristics of Romantic music. Learn about the orchestra in the Romantic period, study the features, and discover the famous...
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Romantic - Musical periods and styles - National 5 Music Revision - BBC Bitesize
October 22, 2024 - Music was used to evoke stories, places or events. Nature was a particularly popular subject. For example Mendelssohn's "Hebrides Overture" was inspired by the composer's trip to the island of Staffa.
Lumen Learning
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Romantic Music | Music 101
Characteristics often attributed to Romanticism, including musical Romanticism, are: ... Such lists, however, proliferated over time, resulting in a “chaos of antithetical phenomena,” criticized for their superficiality and for signifying so many different things that there came to be no central meaning. The attributes have also been criticized for being too vague. For example, features of the “ghostly and supernatural” could apply equally to Mozart’s Don Giovanni from 1787 and Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress from 1951.
Kidsmusiccorner
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Romantic | Kids Music Corner
On the other hand, composers who lived near the beginning of the romantic period were very confused indeed! Or rather, we are very confused about them today because we don’t know where they belong. One example is Franz Schubert (1797–1828). And it’s all Ludwig van Beethoven’s (1770–1827) fault! He started it off. Beethoven wrote the first romantic music.
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r/musictheory on Reddit: What are some defining characteristics of Romantic era music?
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Romantic music can most succinctly be characterized as an exploration of extremes. Tempo fluctuation, dynamics, instrument range, orchestral size, instrumental variety, and harmonic complexity. It was a growth from and rebuke of the constraints of the Classical period, which was itself a rebuke of the excesses of the Baroque.
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Don’t resolve your chords! A piece in A major should not contain any A major chords. I’m only partially joking. Music that is longing and transcendent are major affects of the Romantic period.
Western Michigan University
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Romantic Music History Review
Around 1820, musical Romanticism took its non-establishment impetus from Beethoven's experimental late works, Rossini's colorful Italian operas, and Schubert's daring harmonies. Over the next 80 years, almost every aspect of Western art music underwent tremendous expansion—especially through the innovations of the German theatrical composer, Richard Wagner.
Connollymusic
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The Romantic Period of Music
September 4, 2025 - Romantic music didn’t break completely with Classical tradition—it expanded its vocabulary. For example, Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony defies traditional phrasing structures, and Mahler’s Symphony No.
Lumen Learning
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Romantic Period Explored | Lumen – Ford Music Appreciation
Examples are performers like Paganini and Liszt. Composers of the Romantic Era, like Elgar, showed the world that there should be “no segregation of musical tastes” and that the “purpose was to write music that was to be heard.” · Classical Roots – Classical period composers were ...