Romantic Period 3RD

• • Most Famous Virtuoso
  • Started playing mandolin at the age of 5 and switched to violin at the age of 7
  • Rumors about selling his soul for his skills, gambling, and women


  Niccolo Paganini
• • Was known as the "Poet of the Piano"
  • Started playing piano at the age of 4 and composed polonaise at the age of 7
  • Married Famous French Writer: George Sand
  • Diagnosed with Pulmonary Tuberculosis


  Frederic Chopin
• A verse form of narrative that is set to music

  Ballade
• Is a piece composed for the development of a specific technique

  Etude
• A polish dance in triple time signature

  Mazurka
• An instrumental composition of a pensive, dreamy mood for the piano

  Nocturne
• A slow polish dance in triple time that consist of a march or procession

  Polonaise
• A German dance in triple meter

  Waltz
• A short piece of music that can be used as a preface, and introduction to another work or may stand on its own.

  Prelude
• A short free-form musical composition usually for a solo instrument, like the piano

  Impromptu
• A musical movement of playful character typically in ABA form.

  Scherzo
• Composition for one or more solo instrument usually consisting three of four independent movements varying in key, mood, and tempo

  Sonata
• German composer, pianist, organist, and conductor of early romantic period

  Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthhold
• Was known for his ballet music, died in cholera


  Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky
• • Started his music through the help of his aunt by teaching him piano at the age of 2, he composed a piece at the age of 3
  • He was considered as a composer who creates elegant music, neat, clean, polished, and never excessive
  • The Swan

  • Camille Saint-Saens
• Known as Virtuoso Pianist, idolize Niccolo Paganini

  Known or his generosity in sharing time and money to the orphan

  Franz Liszt
• Went to study law, but he spend most of his time with musical and literary circle with the effort of Friedrich Wieck

  Develop a thing on his hand which affected his career

  Robert Schumann