ROMANTIC ERA 1820 1900 THE ROMANTIC PERIOD WAS

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 SCHUBERT RICHARD WAGNER JOHANNES BRAHMS PETER 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