Music Of The Romantic Period

PRESENTED BY:
BRYNE JAYLORD JEBARATNAM
GRADE 9 – SILANG
PERFORMANCE TASK MUSIC 4Q
ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1910)
 Is described as a cultural movement that stressed
emotion, imagination, individualism and freedom of
expression. Features:
 Nationalism
 Emotions; variety of musical style; freedom of expression
 Music was used to tell stories and express ideas
 Use of folk songs and country music
 Use of more instruments
 Themes on nature, literature, history and feelings
 Composers interpret poems, mood, atmosphere and
imagery into music.
 Romantic artists found inspiration in landscapes.
 Their subjects were traditional myths, legends and folklore
usually dealing with the supernatural, grotesque, and less
ordinary.
 Vocal music in this period require singers to perform a
greater range of tone colour, dynamics and pitch.
 Opera became an important source of musical expressions.
 The birth of the opera houses came.
COMPOSERS OF VOCAL MUSIC ROMANTIC
PERIOD
FRANZ PETER SCHUBERT
 Schubert was born on the 31st of January 1797 in
Himmelpfortgrund, Austria
 The proper name for Franz Schubert songs is lieder, which is
the German word for song.
 He is considered the last of the classical composers and one
of the first romantic ones.
 His famous vocal music works/ Lieder were: “Gretchen am
Spinnrade”, “Erlkonig”, “Ellens Gesang III” (“Ave Maria”)
and “Schwanenge sang” (“Swan Song”).
 He also wrote piano pieces, string quartets, operetta and the
Symphony No.8 in B minor (“Unfinished Symphony”)
 He died in 1828 in Vienna, Austria at 31.
GIUSEPPE VERDI
 Verdi was born in Parma, Italy on October 9, 1813.
 He studied in Busseto and later went to Milan where
his first opera “Oberto” was performed in La Scala,
the most important opera house at the time.
 His final opera ends with “All the world’s a joke.”
 His famous works are La Traviata, Rigoletto,
Falstaff, Otello and Aida were he wrote for the
opening of the Suez Canal.
 Expressive vocal melody is the soul of a Verdi opera.
 He died in Milan, Italy on January 27,1901.
GIACOMO PUCCINI
 Giacomo Puccini was born in a poor family on
December 22, 1858 in Lucca, Italy.
 He studied at the Milan Conservatory.
 He belonged to a group of composers who stressed
realism, therefore, he drew material from everyday
life, rejecting heroic themes from mythology and
history.
 Puccini’s famous operas were: “La Boheme”,
“Tosca”, “Madame Butterfly”, and “Turandot”.
WILHELM RICHARD WAGNER
 Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany on May
22, 1813.
 He was very much inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven.
 Wagner introduced new ideas in harmony and in form, including
extremes of chromaticism.
 He was an advocate of a new form of opera which he called
“music drama” where musical and dramatic elements were fused
together.
 The expressiveness is aided by the use of “leitmotifs” or musical
sequences standing for a particular character/plot element.
 His famous works are; Tristan and Isolde, Die
Walkure, Die Meistersinger, Tannhauser and
Parsifal.
 His work would later influence modern film
scores, including those of the Harry Potter and
Lord of the Rings film series.
 Wagner died of a heart attack on February
13,1883 at age of 69.
GEORGES BIZET
 Registered with the legal name Alexandre-Cesar-
Leopold Bizet, but was baptized Georges Bizet.
 He was born October 25, 1838 in Paris, France.
 Bizet became famous for his operas.
 His most famous opera is “Carmen”.
 Bizet died (June 3, 1875). He was only 36.