ROMANTICISM

Abby Carlon, Caroline Wood, Jess Estrella, Gabby Can, Brandon

Sucaldito, Gonzalo Cavero, Dan O’Connor

ROMANTICISM

Literary, artistic and philosophical movement

Emphasizes on emotions and imagination

Praise of the primitive and common man

Appreciation of external nature

This movement validated strong emotions• Apprehension, terror, awe, and horror

ROMANTICISM

Reached beyond rational and Classicalist ideal

models

Revived medievalism and elements of art

An attempt to escape the confines of population

growth and industrialism

Embraced the exotic and unfamiliar

ART

Emphasis on imagination

and emotion

Many of the Romantic

artists were trained in

Jacques-Louis David's studio

including:• Baron Antoine-Jean

Gros, Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Eugène Delacroix's Death of Sardanapalus

ART

Originality of the artist

is a central notion of

Romanticism

Ingres' Apotheosis of Homer

T H E H A Y W A I N B Y J O H N C O N S T A B L E

• Romanticism also includes a renewed look at nature and man’s relationship with it

ART

L I B E R T Y L E A D I N G T H E P E O P L E B Y E U G E N E

D E L E C R O I X

• Eugene Delecroix used emotion in his paintings to rally political awareness

ART

18T H CENTURY ROMANTIC MUSIC

• Romanticism was first used to

describe new ideas in painting and

literature; the word was later taken

up by musicians to describe the

changes in musical style.

• Romantic composers aimed for

powerful expression of emotion,

often revealing their innermost

thoughts and feelings.

• Romantic music can be about love, hate, or death.

• Romantic composers were often influenced by romantic literature and art

THE RISE OF ROMANTIC MUSIC

Because of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic

Wars, aristocrats could no longer afford musical luxuries.

Romantic composers wrote primarily for a middle-class

audience

The rise of the middle class led to the formation of many

orchestras, opera groups, and subscription concerts.

The piano became a fixture in every middle-class home.

COMPOSERS OF THE PERIOD Composer Lived Composer Lived

Beethoven 1770-1827 Smetana 1824-1884

Schubert 1797-1828 Brahms 1833-1897

Berlioz 1803-1869 Tchaikovsky 1840-1893

Mendelssohn 1809-1847 Dvorak 1841-1904

Chopin 1810-1849 Grieg 1843-1907

Schumann 1810-1856 Rimsky-Korsakov 1844-1908

Liszt 1811-1886 Elgar 1857-1934

Wagner 1813-1883 Mahler 1860-1911

Verdi 1813-1901 Richard Strauss 1864-1949

(Although Beethoven is

not necessarily a Romantic composer,

many Romantic composers

looked to his career as a

model for their own)

FAMOUS 18 T H CENTURY ROMANTIC MUSIC

Frédéric Chopin - Prelude in E-Minor

Albinoni - Adagio in G Minor

Francesco Antonio Rosetti - Flute

Concerto in G Major

TCHAIKOVSKY SYMPHONY NO. 4

Tchaikovsky dedicated this symphony to his patroness, Nadezhda von Meck. She would find in it "an echo of his most intimate thoughts and emotions."