ROMANTIC ERA

1820-1900

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD WAS A TIME OF GREAT

REVOLUTIONS.THE INDUSTRIAL

REVOLUTION CREATED DRASTIC SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGE.

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION REPLACED PEOPLE WITH MACHINES.

THIS WAS ALSO THE TIME OF THE

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR.

Abraham Lincoln

1809-1865

Civil War Battlefield

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD STRESSED EMOTION, IMAGINATION, AND

INDIVIDUALISM.

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD HAD MUCH ARTISTIC

FREEDOM.COMPOSERS EMPHASISED

SELF EXPRESSION AND INDIVIDUALITY.

IMPRESSIONISM

EXPRESSIONISM

Persistance of Memory

Salvador Dali

THE TONE POEM (PROGRAMATIC MUSIC)

WAS A NEW MUSICAL FORM WHICH TOLD A STORY.

MANY OF THE ARTS OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD WERE ABOUT EXOTIC PLACES

AND FANTASTIC EVENTS.

COMPOSERS OF THE ERA:FRANZ SCHUBERTRICHARD WAGNER

JOHANNES BRAHMSPETER TCHAIKOVSKY

ANTONIN DVORAK

SCHUBERT’S UNFINISHED SYMPHONY

• WAS A GREAT FRIEND OF BEETHOVEN. THEY WERE BURIED NEXT TO EACH OTHER.

WAGNER

• WROTE MANY OPERAS INCLUDING LOHENGRIN

JOHANNES BRAHMS

• DISLIKED WAGNER’S MUSIC

• “IF THERE IS ANYONE IN THIS ROOM WHOM I HAVE NOT INSULTED, I BEG HIS PARDON.” ON LEAVING

PETER TCHAIKOVSKY

• SOME BELIEVE HE WAS MANIC DEPRESSIVE

• COMPOSED THE NUTCRACKER BALLET

ANTONIN DVORAK

• COMPOSED THE NEW WORLD SYMPHONY

THIS WAS THE AGE OF THE VIRTUOSO. THIS IS A

MUSICIAN WHO DISPLAYS THEIR TALENTS BY

PERFORMING DIFFICULT MUSIC.

THE PIANO WAS THE MOST POPULAR INSTRUMENT DURING THIS PERIOD.

FRANZ LISZT WAS A PIANO VIRTUOSO.

NEW INSTRUMENTS INVENTED DURING THIS

TIME INCLUDED THE:

TUBA

SAXOPHONE

CELESTE