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Pictures of Romantic composers with their

short biography and their contributions
/styles to the Romantic music.

Romantic Composers

1. Frederic Francois Chopin

2. Pyotr “Peter” Ilyich Tchaikovsky

3. Franz Liszt

4. Charles-Camille Saint-Saens
Frederic Francois Chopin
 Frederic Francois Chopin

A piano virtuoso and great composer of the Romantic period,

Frederic Chopin was born on March 1st, 1810 in Warsaw, Poland.
His Father was a French schoolteacher who emigrated to Poland
where he met and married Chopin's mother.

Chopin's extraordinary talent as a musician was apparent at a

very young age. By the age of 7, he was already composing
music on the piano as well as performing publicly.

Although he did compose a number of chamber pieces, Chopin

was vastly more well-known and sought-after for his work on the
piano which include 51 mazurkas, 12 polyneices, 17 waltzes and 19
nocturnes. The four Ballades and the Sonatas in B-flat minor and
B minor are among his greatest creations, combining passionate
drama and lyrical tenderness in a memorable way.

The expression of beauty, interpersonal turmoil and heroism

throughout his music earned him the respect and friendship of
some of his more notable peers including Felix Mendelssohn and
Hector Berlioz.

Like many great composers, Chopin suffered from Tuberculosis

off and on for more than a decade before he died, and even had
health problems as a child. He suffered an untimely death after
touring through England and Scotland. On October 17th, 1849, he
died in Paris, France at the age of 39.

Chopin also achieved success Nocturne in Eb Major, Prelude in E

in larger forms, including the minor, and Piano Sonata No. In Bb
scherzo, a form he reinvented; minor knows as the Funeral March
the ballade, a genre he are some of his most famous
invented; and the sonata. pieces today.
Pyotr “Peter“ Ilyich Tchaikovsky

 Pyotr “Peter“ Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr “Peter” Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 7th, 1840 in

Votkinsk, Russia. Unlike in many European countries, a serious
career in music was not socially acceptable in Russia during this
time. For this reason, Tchaikovsky first studied law and then
worked for a few years as a government clerk.

His inner drive to become a musician eventually led him to quit his
job and in 1861 enter the St. Petersburg Conservatory where he
studied composition under Anton Rubinstein.

After graduating in 1866, Tchaikovsky was employed as a

harmony teacher at the Moscow Conservatory. However he was
able to retire when in 1877, he was granted annuity from the
Nadezhda von Meck who commissioned him in return for his
compositions.

Even though by mutual agreement the two never met. This

arrangement lasted for over a decade until Madame von Meck
ended their relationship without explanation in 1890.

Tchaikovsky was known for having an extremely delicate and

hypersensitive personality who was prone to hypochondria and
extended bouts of depression. In fact, it is said that he attempted
suicide on more than one occasion. These characteristic traits are
perhaps a catalyst for the passion and extravagant emotionalism
found throughout his music. Tchaikovsky died of Cholera
poisoning on November 6th 1893 in St. Petersburg, Russia at the
age of 53.

Swan Lake (1877),

His music had great appeal for the
The Sleeping Beauty (1889),
The Nutcracker (1892). He is also famous
for the Romeo and Juliet overture (1870)
and celebrated for Symphony No. 6 in B
Minor (Pathétique) (1893).
general public by virtue of its tuneful
open-hearted melodies, impressive
harmonies, and colourful, picturesque
orchestration, all of which evoke a
profound emotional response.
Franz Liszt

 Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt was born on October 22nd, 1811 in Raising, Hungary.

After showing prodigious musical talent at an early age, Liszt's
father, an official at the Hungarian Court of the princes Esterhazy,
began giving him music lessons on the piano.

Liszt made his debut giving recitals at the age of 9. Soon after
being funded by Prince Nicholas, he traveled to Vienna to
continue his music education. There he met Ludwig von
Beethoven and Franz Schubert.

In 1834, he began a liaison with countess Marie d'agoult, this affair

bore three children one of which their second daughter Cosima
later married composer Richard Wagner.

Liszt's striking looks, his larger-than-life personality, his affairs

with married noble women and his virtuosic music ability which
some say was rivaled only by the talents of Niccolo Paganini truly
made him a rock star of his day.

The apex of Liszt's career were the years spent in Weimar

between 1848 and 1859. It was during this time that he composed
most of his major works with encouragement from the princess
Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein.

After travelling to Bayreuth, Germany to attend a music festival,

Franz Liszt died of Pneumonia on July 31st, 1866 at the age of 74.

His major works are the E-flat He was a composer of enormous

Piano Concert, the B minor
Sonata, Hungarian Rhapsodies,
the Faust symphony, the Dante
symphony and etc.
originality, extending harmonic
language and anticipating the
atonal music of the 20th century.
He invented the symphonic poem
for orchestra.
Charles-Camille Saint-Saens

 Charles-Camille Saint-Saens

born on October 9th, 1835 in
Charles-Camille Saint-Saens was
Paris, France.

A child prodigy, his mother and aunt began teaching him piano at
the age of only two, and by age three he was already composing
his own works. Furthermore, by age 10, he was performing
concertos by Beethoven and Mozart.

Aside from being an outstanding pianist, he was also an amateur

scientist, a poet, an essayist, and dramatist who showed interest in
other subjects such as philosophy, geology, astronomy, and
archeology.

In 1857, he was appointed organist at the Madeleine Church in

Paris, a position which he held for 20 years.

Fellow composer, Franz Liszt, said that Saint-Saens was the

greatest composer in the world after hearing him improvise. Saint-
Saens assembled a very large library of musical compositions
throughout his career which included choral and keyboard works,
symphonic poems, operas, incidental music, symphonies, and
concertos.

Charles-Camille Saint-Saens died on December 16th, 1921 in

Algiers, Algeria at the age of 86.

The "Danse Macabre", "Carnaval

His conservative musical style is
of Animals" and an incidental
music such as "Samson and
Delilah" are a few of his most
famous works.
best represented by his third
symphony (1886) and his
sonatas. He also wrote
descriptive works.