MUS 1751 Lecture : MUSIC LECTURE 16 Romantic
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Music lecture #16 romantic period 11/3/2011 3:45:00 pm. Frederick chopin, robert schumann, franz liszt, guiseppe verdi, richard. These were unconventional people they personified the romantic spirit: self-expression, passion, excess, love of nature. Death (usually paired with love / love and death relationship) Life, and how they lived it, also became an art. 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. Franz schubert. (1797-1828: in his short life span schubert wrote more than 600 lieder. He also wrote 8 symphonies, 15 string quartets, 21 piano sonatas, seven. These evenings became known as schubertiads: a famous art song by schubert erlking (1815, based on a narrative verse by goethe. King of the elves and his malevolent seduction of a young boy.
