Romantic Period…
(1820-1900)
-expression of inner feelings
-individuality of style
-nationalism-associated with the country it is from
-program music
-age of the middle class
Art Song (composition for solo voice and piano)- topic usually LOVE
-chamber music
-expressive tone color
-expanded range of
dynamics, pitch, and tempo
-age of the Middle Class
FRANZ SCHUBERT
-(1797-1828)
-earliest master of romantic art song, his love for poetry led him to the art song
-he never held an official musical position and was neither a conductor nor a virtuoso
-income strictly from being a composer
-born in Vienna, Austria
-began as a teacher
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-composed 179 works in his 19
th
years
-wrote 600 art songs, besides his symphonies
-died of syphilis
ROBERT SCHUMANN
-(1810-1856)
-born in Zwickau, Germany
-devoted his life to literature and music, and at 20 he decided to devote his life to
becoming a piano virtuoso, but he began to have problems with his right hand
-fine young pianist
-very influential in his day
-composer and music journalist
-wife Clara, considered once of history’s great love couples, his piano teacher’s daughter.
Married a day after she was legal
FREDERIC CHOPIN
-(1810-1849)
-1/2 Polish (mother), ½ French (father), grew up in Warsaw
-wrote almost exclusively for the piano
- #1 piano composer
- young talent
-lived in Paris and Vienna…but went to Paris to make his career
-shy man with stage fright
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- Spring '08
- MARINO
- Music, Composition, Hector Berlioz, Vienna, Giuseppe Verdi, art song, music -expressive tone
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