Music of the romantic period

• Ludwig Van Beethoven 


  Crucial figure in the transition from classical to romantic. Highly personal expression
• Franz Schubert 


  austrian composer. prolific and gifted composer
• Clara Wieck Schumann


  German composer and pianist. married with Robert Schumann. Romance
• Frederic Chopin


  polish composer and pianist. lived in paris for most of his life.
• Franz Liszt 


  Hungarian composer and virtuosic pianist used complex and unusual chords. created the symphonic poem and utilized the matic transformation
• Guiseppe Verdi 


  italian composer of 15 operas, a requiem a string quartet. His music became a symbol of the italian liberation
• Johannes Brahams 


  German composer. avoided newly invented forms.
• Hector Berlioz 


  french composer. call for huge instrumental and vocal voices. writing about orchestration
• Modest Mussorgsky


  russian composer.
• Giacomo Puccini


  Italian opera composer. known for his beautiful lyricism
• Richard Wagner


  German composer for the stage. he had complete control of every aspects of these music dramas
• Bedrich Smetana


  Bohemian composer. founder of the Czech national music