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Although the movement was rooted in the German Sturm und Drang movement, which
preferred intuition and emotion to the rationalism of the Enlightenment, the events and
ideologies of the French Revolution were also proximate factors.
Romanticism assigned a high value to the achievements of "heroic" individualists and artists,
whose examples, it maintained, would raise the quality of society.
It also promoted the individual imagination as a critical authority allowed of freedom from
classical notions of form in art. There was a strong recourse to historical and natural
inevitability.
The main emphasis of the Romantic period was a preoccupation with nature and the desire to
spiritually connect on an individual level.
In Germany, literature became its earliest expression, before becoming an expression of proto-
nationalism.
However, technological development allowed for the invention of new mechanical valves and
keys in woodwind and brass instruments, further expanding the range of sound available to
composers.
Romantic period music attempted to grapple with the same ideas and topics that occupied
other Romantics. Different Approaches to Romanticism
In fact, one could divide the main part of the Romantic era into two schools of composers.
Some took a more conservative approach.
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The paintings of the Romantic period gave more emphasis on emotion. Artists expressed as
much feeling and passion as it could be on a canvas.