List of Romantic composers

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The Romantic music era was the predominant music era of the 19th century. It directly followed and grew out of the classical music era. Romantic composers expanded on the forms and structures established in the previous era, resulting in longer musical forms such as cyclic form and program music.[1] Technology improved the quality of instruments, including the addition of valves to brass instruments and an improved piano.[2] Composers used increased expressiveness, often using terms such as dolce (sweetly) or maestoso (majestically) as instructions in their scores.[3] They experimented with tonality, including increased use of chromaticism and dissonance.[4] Nationalist music also became prominent in the Romantic era, with composers such as Glinka in Russia and Sibelius in Finland drawing on folk music from their native lands for inspiration.[5]

Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms

Toward the end of the Romantic era, a musical movement called impressionist music began. Composers such as Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel tended to focus on atmosphere or mood instead of emotion in their compositions.[6] Although sometimes seen as a reaction to romanticism, impressionism is sometimes considered an extension of the romantic era.[7] Thus, some impressionist composers are listed here.

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[edit] Classical era/Romantic transition composers (born 1770-1800)

Ludwig van Beethoven, regarded by many as the first Romantic composer
Ludwig van Beethoven, regarded by many as the first Romantic composer

[edit] Early Romantic composers (born 1800-1820)

Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner

[edit] Middle Romantic composers (born 1820-1850)

  • Augusta Browne (1820–1882)
  • Felicita Casella (c. 1820–after 1865)
  • Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889)
  • Clara Angela Macirone (1821–1895)
  • Emilie Mayer (1821–1883)
  • Charlotte Sainton-Dolby (1821–1885)
  • Maria Anna Stubenberg (1821–1912)
  • Pauline Viardot (1821–1910)
  • Friedrich Kiel (1821-1885), German composer, best known for choral and chamber music
  • Joachim Raff (1822-1882), Swiss-born German composer, best known for 11 Symphonies, most of them program music
  • César Franck (1822–1890), Belgian-born French composer, noted for his Symphony, also a significant composer for the organ
  • Faustina Hasse Hodges (1822–1895)
  • Édouard Lalo (1823–1892), French composer remembered for his Symphonie Espagnole for violin and orchestra and Cello Concerto
  • Anton Bruckner (1824–1896), Austrian composer of nine large-scale symphonies (one incomplete and two more unacknowledged, the third dedicated to Richard Wagner whom he admired)
  • Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), Czech nationalist composer, perhaps best known for his cycle of symphonic poems, Ma Vlast
  • Emma Maria Macfarren (1824–1895)
  • Marie Siegling (1824–1919)
  • Jane Sloman (1824–after 1850)
Johann Strauss II
Johann Strauss II
  • Johann Strauss II (1825–1899), Austrian composer who wrote many waltzes and polkas, known as "The Waltz King", composer of The Blue Danube and the opera Die Fledermaus
  • Virginia Gabriel (1825–1877)
  • Kate Loder (1825–1904)
  • Maria Lindsay (1827–1898)
  • Teresa Milanollo (1827–1904)
  • Julia Niewiarowska-Brzozowska (1827–1891)
  • Elizabeth Philp (1827–1885)
  • Marie Grandval (1828–1907)
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869), American composer famous for performing his own romantic piano works.
  • Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff (1830-1913)
  • Charlotte Alington Barnard (1830–1869)
  • Sophia Dellaporta (fl. second half of the 19th century)
  • Fanny Arthur Robinson (1831–1879)
  • Martha von Sabinin (1831–1892)
  • Julia Woolf (1831–1893)
  • Alexander Borodin (1833–1887), Russian chemist and nationalist composer, wrote the opera Prince Igor
  • Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), German composer who worked under the onus of being compared to Beethoven, his Symphony No. 1 is often nicknamed "Beethoven's tenth," also famous for Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn and piano works
  • Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886), Italian opera composer (La Gioconda)
  • Esmeralda Athanasiu-Gardeev (1834–1917)
  • Tekla Badarzewska (1834–1861)
  • Anna Pessiak-Schmerling (1834–1896)
  • Felix Draeseke (1835-1913), German composer, combining the style of the New German School with neo-classical elements
  • Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921), French composer perhaps best known for The Carnival of the Animals
  • Henryk Wieniawski (1835–1880), Polish composer and violinist, famous for his two concertos and character pieces of exceptional difficulty
  • Léo Delibes (1836–1891), one of the first significant ballet composers since the baroque, known for his Coppelia, Sylvia, and Lakmé
  • Johanne Amelie Fenger (1836–1913)
  • Susan McFarland Parkhurst (1836–1918)
  • Anaïs Perrière-Pilte (1836–1878)
  • Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie (1836–1911)
  • Pauline-Marie-Elisa Thys (c. 1836–1909)
  • Caroline Wichern (1836–1906)
  • Carlotta Ferrari (1837–1907)
  • Georgina Weldon (1837–1914)
  • Georges Bizet (1838–1875), French composer famous for his opera Carmen
  • Max Bruch (1838–1920), German composer, known for his Violin Concerto No. 1, Scottish Fantasy, and Kol Nidre for cello and orchestra
  • Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881), Russian known for his intensely nationalist, original works; famous for his opera Boris Godunov, and Pictures at an Exhibition
  • John Knowles Paine (1839–1906), first native-born American composer to acquire fame for his large-scale orchestral music
  • Louise Haenel de Cronenthall (1839–c. 1876)
  • Laura Constance Netzel (1839–1927)
  • Alice Mary Smith (1839–1884)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

[edit] Late Romantic composers (born 1850-1870)

Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss
  • Edward MacDowell (1860–1908), American composer best known for his piano concertos
  • Hugo Wolf (1860–1903), Austrian composer of lieder, influenced by Richard Wagner
  • Valborg Aulin (1860–1928)
  • Celeste de Longpré Heckscher (1860–1928)
  • Halina Krzyżanowska (1860–1937)
  • Amy Woodforde-Finden (1860–1919)
  • Mary J. A. Wurm (1860–1938)
  • Florence Everilda Goodeve (1861–1915)
  • Claude Debussy (1862–1918), French composer, his music is often described as impressionist, although he dismissed the term, wrote 'Clair de Lune' from Suite bergamasque
  • Frederick Delius (1862–1934), English composer, used chromaticism in many of his compositions
  • Florence Aylward (1862–1950)
  • Carrie Bond (1862–1946)
  • Dora Bright (1862–1951)
  • Liza Lehmann (1862–1918)
  • Mona McBurney (1862–1932)
  • Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945), Italian opera composer, known for Cavalleria Rusticana
  • Marian Arkwright (1863–1922)
  • Luisa Casagemas (1863–after 1894)
  • Maria Chefaliady-Taban (1863–1932)
  • Abbie Gerrish-Jones (1863–1929)
  • Helen Francis Hood (1863–1949)
  • Izabella Kuliffay (1863–1945)
  • Cornélie van Oosterzee (1863–1943)
  • Richard Strauss (1864–1949), German composer, known for Also Sprach Zarathustra, based on Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy, wrote many tone poems and operas
  • Florence Maude Ewart (1864–1949)
  • Eleanor Everest Freer (1864–1942)
  • Alice Tegnér (1864–1943)
  • Paul Dukas (1865–1935), French composer, noted for his piece of program music, The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936), Russian, influenced by Wagner and Liszt
  • Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Finnish nationalist composer, famous for the symphonic poem Finlandia
  • Borghild Holmsen (1865–1938)
  • Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924), Italian composer and pianist, known for his opera Turandot and his many transcriptions and arrangements of Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Francesco Cilea (1866–1950), Italian opera composer noted for Adriana Lecouvreur
  • Amanda Ira Aldridge (1866–1956)
  • Henriette van den Boorn-Coclet (1866–1945)
  • Clara Anna Korn (1866–1941)
  • Laura Lemon (1866–1924)
  • Adela Maddison (1866–1929)
  • Tekla Griebel Wandall (1866–1940)
  • Umberto Giordano (1867–1948), Italian opera composer
  • Enrique Granados (1867–1916), Spanish composer and pianist
  • Amy Beach (1867–1944)
  • Margherita Galeotti (1867–after 1912)
  • Amy Elsie Horrocks (1867–after 1915)
  • Margaret Ruthven Lang (1867–1972)
  • Gisella Delle Grazie (born 1868, fl. 1894–95)
  • Signe Lund (1868–1950)
  • Annie Patterson (1868–1934)
  • Albert Roussel (1869–1937), French composer, wrote four symphonies, ballets, and chamber music
  • Virginia Mariani Campolieti (1869–1941)
  • Maria Antonietta Picconi (1869–1926)
  • Caro Roma (1869–1937)
  • Patty Stair (1869–1926)

[edit] Romantic/20th century transition composers (born 1870-1880)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Machlis, page 310
  2. ^ Machlis, page 310
  3. ^ Machlis, page 311
  4. ^ Machlis, page 312
  5. ^ Machlis, page 311
  6. ^ Moss, Charles K. [1]. URL accessed 14 August 2006.
  7. ^ Machlis, page 442

[edit] References

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