MUS 1751 Lecture : 3 20 Notes
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The composers of the period were unconventional people; they personified the romantic spirit. Life, and how they lived it, also became and art. Short forms with whimsical titles (like arabesque or romance, to name a couple) The romantics became very interested in literature and in having their music express some sort of literary content. There was a great output of poetry and that poetry lent itself well to writing songs. This popularized a genre called the art song, a song for solo voice and piano accompaniment. A yound vienenese man who was most famous for his lieder was franz schubert. In his short life span schubert wrote more than 600 lieder. 15 string quartets, 21 piano sonatas, seven masses and four operas. Was broke, spent mornings composing, afternoons in the cafes and his evening were often spent at the home of friend performing is music.
