For the past month I've been listening to the Romantic Era symphonies. The Romantic time period seems to range from 1810-1920 (depending on your source). This time period has nothing to do with "romance", but a period that different "trends" appear in classical music: emotion, longer melodies, complex harmonies, bigger orchestras, pianos, fascination with nature and the Gothic/supernatural.
Some composers land in this era----and there's another part of this era I will talk about next week: the nationalists. So the following lists are what I have researched and decided for the Romantic Era----but some of these overlap into the nationalists.
Early Romantic Composers
- Schubert
- Mendelssohn
- Schumann
- Berlioz
- Liszt
- Brahms
- Bruckner
- Dvorak
- Elgar
- Mahler
I look forward to listening to specific nationalist composers --- and then on to the 20th century.
Paula M.....