It's example of famous compuser in romantic period

1. Romantic Period
Music
The Sound of Emotion

2. Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Lived a troubled life
Composed almost one
thousand works
Symphonies, sonatas, operas,
masses, choral compositions, and
over 600 Lieder.

3. Lieder
The “art song”
A composition for solo voice with piano
accompaniment and poetic text
Franz Schubert’s Der Erlkönig
 (The Elf King) - listen to - read poem
in book
 Through-composed setting—new
music for each stanza to capture the
poem’s mounting excitement
 Listen to Gretchen am Spinnrade

4. Frederic Chopin
French composer
Wrote almost exclusively
for the piano
Wrote “etudes” (studies)
 Each explored a single technical
problem, usually set around a single
motif.
 These etudes became short tone poems
 Listen to Etude #3 in E Major,Op 10,
Ballade No.1 in G Minor OP.23

5. Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer
Know mostly for
piano works
Extremely big hands
and long fingers
Pieces technically difficult

6. Program Music
Started with Beethoven, but
developed by Hector Berlioz, Richard
Strauss, and Peter Tchaikovsky
Longer works built around a
nonmusical story, a picture, or some
other idea
Descriptive
Listen to Berlioz’s Symphonie
fantastique: IV

7. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Best known for his 1812 Overture,
The Nutcracker (ballet), and Swan
Lake (ballet)
All three pieces are Program Music

8. Romantic Opera
 Giuseppe Verdi
 Rigoletto, "La donna è mobile“
 (read in book & listen)
 About a hunch-backed court jester who loves his
daughter Gilda very much. The daughter is
deceptively seduced by the evil duke when the
duke disguises himself as a student. Rigoletto
plots his revenge to kill the duke. Unfortunately,
Gilda never learns the truth and actually gives her
life for the duke. Virtue does not triumph here.
 Verdi-La Traviata
 Verdi-Requiem
 Verdi-Il trovatore

9. Beethoven
Cross over between
Classical & Romantic
Began the Romantic
melodramatic qualities
5th Symphony
9th Symphony
6th Symphony: Pastoral
Symphony

10. Sergei Prokofiev
Russian composer
Know for program
music
Most famous:
Peter and the Wolf
Watch cartoon