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Ten Famous Composers of the Romantic Era and Their Causes of Death
Abstract
The musical composers in the Romantic Era (–) strived for compositions that expressed human life, including happiness, harmony, and despair. They lived in a period in which freedom of thought, expression of emotion, and inspiration by nature predominated. During this period, intensive trading with other parts of the world brought new microorganisms along, which made infections and epidemics very common. This article serves to address the cause of death and relevant biographic data of a number of well-known Romantic composers. Primarily, this review refers to clinically significant findings using reports that were retrieved from PubMed, Embase, and Google over the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries till 14th June This text dwells on diseases and the cause of death of ten composers, namely Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Liszt, Mahler, and Bruckner. It is evident that from the
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10 of the best Romantic composers in classical music history
23 November , | Updated: 14 July ,
From the year to around , Western Classical Music was defined bygd its soaring melodies and ever-expanding orchestras, its originality and self-expression. Here are the composers who made it all happen.
The Romantic period. “So good, they named it twice”, in the great words of composer and Classic FM presenter, John Brunning.
The ‘Early’ Romantic period began around the year with then-Classical great, Ludwig van Beethoven, whose revolutionising of the symphony gave life to a new era in music history.
Fast-forward to the turn of the century, and music was looking wildly different to how it did in the Classical era (). The Late Romantics, composers like Rachmaninov and Mahler, were expanding the orchestra to unprecedented proportions, adding more colours and instruments and turning music into a vehicle to express the full spectrum of human emotion – from sorrow to joy, passion to g
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Romantic music
Music of the Romantic period
This article is about the genre of music. For the traditional term in music, see Romance (music). For other uses, see Romantic (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with love song or sentimental ballad.
Romantic music is a stylistic movement in Western Classical music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly referred to as the Romantic era (or Romantic period). It is closely related to the broader concept of Romanticism—the intellectual, artistic, and literary movement that became prominent in Western culture from about until [1]
Romantic composers sought to create music that was individualistic, emotional, dramatic, and often programmatic; reflecting broader trends within the movements of Romantic literature, poetry, art, and philosophy. Romantic music was often ostensibly inspired by (or else sought to evoke) non-musical stimuli, such as nature,[2] literature,[2] poetry,[2]