the romantic movement
it seems like many do not have an idea about the Romantic Movement & before i put down my comment i will give a small understandable review on that........
In the history of western music, "Romanticism" is the main feature of the "Romantic Period" dated from 1810 till 1910.
The composers of this period were not satisfied with the traditional structure of music because of its limitations to express their true feelings through music. So they tried to overcome this particular barrier by breaking the traditional structure whenever there is a difficulty of expressing their ideas.
They believed that this is a free movement that allows them use their skills to do compositions which would be more natural, artful & sensible to music and their sole ambition was to create music that could amaze them as well as the audience. For this they never hesitate to depart from the traditional styles and put emotions above form(structure).
In short these composers were much more interested in what they say rather than the musical form, technique or perfection of their work like the composers before them.
Unlike others romantic composers were often inspired by literary, pictorial, and other non musical sources as well. So poetry of the 18th and 19th centuries formed the basis of art songs in which the composer portrayed with music the imagery and moods of the texts.
This movement was a major effort of Beethoven which became successful in the end of the 17th century and his many late compositions are noticeably influenced by it.(eg. The Pathetique Sonata, Eroica symphony)
The other notable composers are:
Franz Schubert, Carl Maria Von Weber,Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt,Robert Schumann,Johannes Brahms,Richard Strauss,Giuseppe Verdi,Richard Wagner,Felix Mendelssohn,Frederic Chopin,Anton Devorak,Claude Debussy etc.
