1. Romantic Period Music The Sound of Emotion

2. Franz Schubert Austrian composer Lived a troubled life Composed almost one thousand works Symphonies, sonatas, operas, masses, choral compositions, and over 600 Lieder.

3. Lieder The “art song” A composition for solo voice with piano accompaniment and poetic text Franz Schubert’s Der Erlkönig (The Elf King) - listen to - read poem in book Through-composed setting—new music for each stanza to capture the poem’s mounting excitement Listen to Gretchen am Spinnrade

4. Frederic Chopin French composer Wrote almost exclusively for the piano Wrote “etudes” (studies) Each explored a single technical problem, usually set around a single motif. These etudes became short tone poems Listen to Etude #3 in E Major,Op 10, Ballade No.1 in G Minor OP.23

5. Franz Liszt Hungarian composer Know mostly for piano works Extremely big hands and long fingers Pieces technically difficult

6. Program Music Started with Beethoven, but developed by Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss, and Peter Tchaikovsky Longer works built around a nonmusical story, a picture, or some other idea Descriptive Listen to Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique: IV

7. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Russian composer Best known for his 1812 Overture, The Nutcracker (ballet), and Swan Lake (ballet) All three pieces are Program Music

8. Romantic Opera Giuseppe Verdi Rigoletto, "La donna è mobile“ (read in book & listen) About a hunch-backed court jester who loves his daughter Gilda very much. The daughter is deceptively seduced by the evil duke when the duke disguises himself as a student. Rigoletto plots his revenge to kill the duke. Unfortunately, Gilda never learns the truth and actually gives her life for the duke. Virtue does not triumph here. Verdi-La Traviata Verdi-Requiem Verdi-Il trovatore

9. Beethoven Cross over between Classical & Romantic Began the Romantic melodramatic qualities 5th Symphony 9th Symphony 6th Symphony: Pastoral Symphony

10. Sergei Prokofiev Russian composer Know for program music Most famous: Peter and the Wolf Watch cartoon