What defines Music during the Romantic period?
Musical Romanticism moved away from strictly classical rules and was marked by an emphasis on originality, emotional expression and an experimentation with new forms. Ludwig van Beethoven developed from classicism into romanticism and the style spanned much of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth culminating with the vast or emotional works of such late romantics as Gustav Mahler.
People in this field include:
Adolphe Adam: (1803-1856) French composer, teacher and music critic. See the Adam page here.
Anton Arensky: (1871-1906) Russian composer, pianist and a professor of music. See the Arensky page here.
Daniel Auber: (1782-1871) French composer. See the Auber page here.
Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev: (1837-1910) Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. See the Balakirev page here.
Amy Beach: (1867-1944) American composer and pianist. See the Beach page here.
Ludwig van Beethoven: (1770-1827) German composer, pianist and conductor. See the Beethoven page here.
Vincenzo Bellini: (1801-1835) Italian opera composer. See the Bellini page here.
William Sterndale Bennett: (1816-1875) English composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. See the Bennett page here.
Hector Berlioz: (1803 –1869) French Romantic composer and conductor. See the Berlioz page here.
Georges Bizet: (1838-1875) French composer best known for his operas. See the Bizet page here.
Alexander Borodin: (1833-1887) Composer and chemist of Georgian-Russian extraction. See the Borodin page here.
Johannes Brahms: (1833-1897) German composer, pianist, and conductor. See the Brahms page here.
Max Bruch: (1838-1920) German composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor. See the Bruch page here.
Anton Bruckner: (1824-1896) Austrian composer. See the Bruckner page here.
Friedrich Burgmüller: (1806-1874) German pianist, composer and teacher. See the Burgmuller page here.
Emmanuel Chabrier: (1841-1894) French composer and pianist. See the Chabrier page here.
Ernest Chausson: (1855-1899) French Romantic composer. See the Chausson page here.
Frédéric Chopin: (1810-1849) Polish composer and famous virtuoso pianist. See the Chopin page here.
César Cui: (1835-1918) Russian composer and music critic and member of “The Five”. See the Cui page here.
Carl Czerny: (1791-1857) Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin. See the Czerny page here.
Leo Delibes: (1836-1891) French Romantic composer, best known for his ballets and operas. See the Delibes page here.
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti: (1797-1848) Italian composer, best known for his 60 plus operas. See the Donizetti page here.
Antonín Dvořák: (1841-1904) Czech nationalist composer. See the Dvorak page here.
Ferenc Erkel: (1810-1893) Hungarian composer, conductor and pianist. See the Erkel page here.
Gabriel Fauré: (1845-1924) French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. See the Faurel page here.
César Franck: (1822-1890) French Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher. See the Franck page here.
John Field: (1782-1837) Irish pianist, composer, and teacher. See the Field page here.
Friedrich von Flotow: (1812-1883) German theatrical composer. See the Flotow page here.
Alexander Glazunov: (1865-1936) Russian late Romantic composer, conductor and Professor of Music. See the Glazunov page here.
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka: (1804-1857) Known as the father of Russian music. See the Glinka page here.
Charles Gounod: (1818-1893) French composer principally of opera. See the Gounod page here.
Edvard Grieg: (1843-1907) Norwegian composer and pianist. See the Grieg page here.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel: (1778-1837) Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. See the Hummel page here.
Engelbert Humperdinck: (1854-1921) German composer chiefly of operas. See the Humperdinck page here.
Ruggero Leoncavallo: Italian Opera composer and librettist. See the Leoncavallo page here.
Franz Liszt: (1811-1886) Hungarian composer, famous virtuoso pianist and teacher. See the Liszt page here.
Hamish MacCunn: (christened James) (1868-1916) Scottish composer, conductor and teacher. See the MacCunn page here.
Gustav Mahler: (1860-1911) Austro-Bohemian composer and conductor. See the Mahler page here.
Pietro Mascagni: (1863-1945) Italian opera composer and conductor. See the Mascagni page here.
Jules Massenet (1842-1912) French Romantic composer chiefly of operas. See the Massenet page here.
Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy: (1805-1847) German composer and pianist. See the Fanny Mendelssohn page here.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: (1809 –1847) German composer, pianist, organist and conductor. See the Felix Mendelssohn page here.
Giacomo Meyerbeer: (1791-1864) German opera composer. See the Meyerbeer page here.
Modest Mussorgsky: (1839-1881) Russian Composer and member of “The Five”. See the Mussorgsky page here.
Carl Nielsen: (1865-1931) Danish composer. See the Nielsen page here.
Jacques Offenbach: (1819-1880) German-born French operetta composer, cellist and impresario. See the Offenbach page here.
Niccolò Paganini: (1782-1840) Italian virtuoso violinist and composer. See the Paganini page here.
Giacomo Puccini: (1858-1924) Italian opera composer. See the Puccini page here.
Sergei Rachmaninoff: (1873-1943) Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. See the Rachmaninoff page here.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: (1844-1908) Russian Composer and member of “The Five”. See the Rimsky-Korsakov page here.
Gioachino Rossini: (1792-1868) Italian opera composer. See the Rossini page here.
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns: (1835-1921) French composer, organist, conductor and pianist. See the Saint-Saens page here.
Pablo de Sarasate: (1844-1908) Spanish violin virtuoso, composer and conductor. See the Sarasate page here.
Franz Schubert: (1797-1828) Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. See the Schubert page here.
Clara Schumann: (1819-1896) German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. See the Clara Schumann page here.
Robert Schumann: (1810-1856) German composer, pianist and music critic. See the Robert Schumann page here.
Alexander Scriabin: (1872-1915) Russian composer and virtuoso pianist. See the Scriabin page here.
Bedřich Smetana: (1824-1884) Known as the father of Czech music. See the Semtana page here.
Jean Sibelius: (1865-1957) Finnish compose. See the Sibelius page here.
Johann Strauss I: (1804-1849) Austrian composer. See the Strauss the Elder page here.
Johann Strauss II: (1825-1899) Austrian composer of dance music and operettas. See the Strauss the Younger page here.
Josef Strauss: (1827-1870) Austrian composer of Viennese music. See the Josef Strauss page here.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: (1840-1893) Russian composer of orchestral and stage works. See the Tchaikovsky page here.
Ralph Vaughan Williams: (1872-1958) English pastoral composer. See the Vaughan Williams page here.
Giuseppe Verdi: (1813-1901) Italian opera composer. See the Verdi page here.
Richard Wagner: (1813-1883) German Opera composer and theatre director. See the Wagner page here.
Carl Maria von Weber: (1786-1826) German composer and conductor. See the Weber page here.
Hugo Wolf: (1860-1903) German composer of Lieder. See the Wolf page here.