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Romantic Period

 

            
             Romanticism (1820-1900) in music was brought to the world during the early nineteenth century. This music stressed emotion, imagination, and individualism. The Romantic period was about freedom of expression and breaking away from time-honored conventions.
             This period in time had influenced many, or even all of the arts. Painters used bolder and more brilliant colors in their works. Also, they had preferred dynamic motion to gracefully balanced poses. Poetry was also changed during the Romantic Period. Emotional subjectivity was a basic quality in every type of art during this time. Many artists had become "romantics" and had become drawn to the realm of fantasy: the unconscious, the irrational, and the world of dreams. Romantics were fascinated with the Middle Ages, the time of chivalry and romance. What neoclassicists had thought of to be the "dark ages", the romantics had cherished. .
             The Romantic Period was filled with many significant, brilliant musicians. Among these artists were Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Robert Schumann (1819-1896), Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1849), Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Hector Beriloz (1803-1869), Peter Ilyic Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884), Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), and Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Many of these composers grew up during the Classical Period. Their music had many of the same forms as the Classical Period. The emotional intensity in the Romantic Period's music was mostly influenced from composers like Mozart and Beethoven. The romantic preference for expressive, songlike melody also grew out of the Classical Period's style. Though, the romantic works tend to have more pitch, dynamics, and greater ranges of tone color. Its harmonic vocabulary is broader also, along with more emphasis on colorful, unstable chords.


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