ROMANTIC PERIOD

• Romantic artists found inspiration in landscapes
• Mood is often set at the beginning with piano introduction and concluded with a piano postlude.
• Their subjects were traditional myths, legends and folklore.
• Franz Peter Schubert - its proper name of songs is 'lieder' which is the German word for songs. He developed lieder so that they had a powerful dramatic impact on the listeners.
• GRETCHEN AND SPINRADE

  ERLKONIG

  ELLENS GESANG III (AVE MARIA)

  SCHAWENENGE SANG ( SWAN SONG )

  This are the songs/lieder that schubert composed and most famous vocal music works
• SCHUBERT was born on the 31st of January 1797 in Himmelpfortgrund, austria and died in 1828 in Vienna, Austria at age of 31.
• GIUSEPPE VERDI - He insisted on a good libretto and wrote operas with political overtones and for middle-class audience.
• Giuseppe Verdi was born in Parma, Italy on October 9, 1813
• 'OBERTO' was the first opera of Verdi, and was performed in La scala, the most important opera house at the time.
• VERDI MUCH ACCLAIMED WORKS ARE

  LA TRAVIATA, ADIA, RIGOLETTO, FALSTAFF, OTELLO.
• GIACOMO PUCCINI - was born in a poor family on December 22, 1858 in Lucca, Italy
• PUCCINI drew material from everyday life, rejecting heroic themes from mythology and history.
• PUCCINI studied at MILAN conservatory
• GIACOMO PUCCINI's famous operas were: LA BOHEME, TOSCA, MADAME BUTTERFLY, AND TURANDOT
• RICHARD WAGNER 


  was born in Leipzig, Germany on May 22, 1813 He attended Leipzig University.

  • vv inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • He paved the way for the rise of atonality in 20th century
• RICHARD WAGNER FAMOUS WORKS ARE:

  Tristan and Isolde, Die Walkyrie, Die Meistersinger, Tannhauser, parsifal
• richard wagner advocate a new form of opera


  which he called 'music drama' where musical and dramatic elements were fused together
• GEORGES BIZET

  • was registered with the legal name Alexandre-Cesar-Leopold Bizet but was baptized Georges Bizet
  • He was born October 25, 1838, in Paris, France
• Bizet most famous opera was 'CARMEN'


  carmen first opened in pairs, the reviews were terrible.
• what are the famous works of Richard Wagner give me at least one

  Tristan and Isolde, Die Walkyrie, Die Meistersinger, Tannhauser, Parsifal
• BIZET DIED ON JUNE 3, 1875

  HE WAS ONLY 36
• romantic opera 


  it is a musical composition having all or most of its text set to music with arias, recitative, choruses, duets, trios, etc., sung to orchestral accompaniment.
• libretto is the text of an opera