ROMANTICISM IN

INSTRUMENTAL
OF: CAMILO VARGAS
SANTIAGO MESA
CRISTIAN ÑUSTES
DAVID ARIAS
IMPORTANT EVENTS
• The important events were some like:
• 1) Romantic opera (1800-1929)
• 2) The classical roots of Romanticism (1780-1815), there was where Ludwig van Beethoven (1820) met
• 3) Early Romanticism (1815-1829)
• 4) Middle Romanticism (1830-1850)
• 5) Late Romanticism (1850-1870)
• 6) Post-romanticism (1870-1949)
• 7) The romantic musician
COMPOSERS OF ROMANTICISM
• 1) Ludwig van Beethoven: Was a German composer, conductor, pianist, and piano teacher. His musical legacy
spans, chronologically, from Classicism to the beginnings of Romanticism.
• 2) Richard Wagner: He was a German Romantic composer, conductor, poet, essayist, playwright, and music
theorist. Mainly his operas stand out in which, unlike other composers, he also assumed the libretto and the
scenery.
• 3) Franz Liszt: He was a romantic Austro-Hungarian composer, a virtuoso pianist, conductor, piano teacher,
arranger, and Secular Franciscan. His Hungarian name was Liszt Ferencz, according to modern usage Liszt Ferenc,
and from 1859 to 1865 he was officially known as Franz Ritter von Liszt.
• 4) Robert Schumann: He was a German composer, pianist and music critic of the 19th century, considered one of
the most important and representative composers of musical Romanticism. Schumann left his law studies,
intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist.
• ETC
EVENTS OF THE TIME
• 1) The solo piano was perfectly adapted to the individual expression sought by Romanticism, thus
becoming the quintessential romantic instrument. Many composers of this period composed
magnificent works for piano, such as Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann or Brahms.
• 2) Wind instruments, larger and deeper sounding than the trumpet.
• 3) Tuba: Wind instrument of great proportions and voluminous and serious sonority.
• 4) Piano: Although it already existed in Classicism, the piano is the great instrument of Romanticism.
CHARACTERISTICS OF MUSICAL
ROMANTICISM
• 1) Greater use of chromaticisms, harmonic changes and minor keys.
• 2) Very colourful, intense, sometimes ambiguous harmony.
• 3) Frequent use of modulation (change of key), which requires the viewer more attention.
• 4) Expansion of the musical range and variety.
• 5) Growth in the importance of virtuosity. The implementation of very technical passages, with the aim that a solo musician can show off his skills.
Franz Liszt stood out for this quality at the piano, creating extremely difficult piano compositions in terms of technique and interpretation.
• 6) Inclusion of new instruments in the symphony orchestra such as the piccolo, the English horn, the contrabassoon and the tuba, among others.
• 7) Increase in the size of the orchestra, greater number of musicians.
• 8) Peak in the use of the piano, both individually and in the symphony orchestra, thanks to its expressive quality.
• 9) Variety in musical styles, including adaptations of folk dances and national elements.
• 10) Promotion of improvisation.
• 11) Appreciation of the exotic.