

a turn towards the mystic and supernatural, both religious and unearthly.a new preoccupation with and surrender to nature.Ĭharacteristics often attributed to Romanticism: The classical period often used short, even fragmentary, thematic material while the Romantic period tended to make greater use of longer, more fully defined and more emotionally evocative themes. Such later Romantic composers include Anton Bruckner, Johannes Brahms, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Mykola Lysenko, Modest Mussorgsky, Antonín Dvořák, Alexander Borodin, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Glazunov, Edward Elgar, Edvard Grieg, Gabriel Fauré, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Later nineteenth-century composers would appear to build upon certain early Romantic ideas and musical techniques, such as the use of extended chromatic harmony and expanded orchestration. Other influential composers of the early Romantic era include Hector Berlioz, Frédéric Chopin, Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, Gioachino Rossini, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Niccolò Paganini, Franz Schubert, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Heinrich Marschner and Carl Maria von Weber. Ludwig van Beethoven is considered one of the transitioning composers bridging the Classical era and the Romantic era. It was also through the writings of Hoffmann and other German authors that German music was brought to the center of musical Romanticism. It was Hoffmann's fusion of ideas already associated with the term "Romantic", used in opposition to the restraint and formality of Classical models, that elevated music, and especially instrumental music, to a position of pre-eminence in Romanticism as the art most suited to the expression of emotions. In the first of these essays Hoffmann traced the beginnings of musical Romanticism to the later works of Haydn and Mozart. Hoffmann who established the principles of musical romanticism, in a lengthy review of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony published in 1810, and an 1813 article on Beethoven's instrumental music. One of the first significant applications of the term to music was in 1789, in the Mémoires by the Frenchman André Grétry, but it was E. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, literature, and education, and was in turn influenced by developments in natural history. In part, it was a revolt against social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature ( Casey 2008). The Romantic movement was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe and strengthened in reaction to the Industrial Revolution.

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, by Caspar David Friedrich, is an example of Romantic painting.
