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Napoleon was crowned Emperor of the French on Sunday, December 2, 1804, at Notre-Dame de Paris in Paris. It marked "the instantiation of the modern empire" and was a "transparently contrived piece of modern propaganda." -
José de Espronceda y Delgado was a Spanish writer from the Romantic era, considered the most representative poet of early Romanticism in Spain.
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Romanticism is a cultural movement that originated in Germany and the United Kingdom in the late 18th century as a reaction against the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism, giving priority to feelings over reason.1 It is considered the first cultural movement that covered the entire map of America.
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Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, known as the Choral Symphony, is a choral symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1822 and 1824. It is the ninth and last of his nine symphonies. It premiered in Vienna on May 7, 1824. -
Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic era, considered the most classical of the period's composers. Born into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna.
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Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida, better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, was a Spanish poet and narrator of the Post-Romanticism period. Although he already achieved a certain fame during his lifetime, it was only after his death and after the publication of his writings that he gained the prestige he has today.
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Edvard Hagerup Grieg, commonly known as Edvard Grieg, was a Norwegian composer and pianist, considered one of the main representatives of late Romanticism. -
Frederick Delius was an English composer. The lyricism in Delius's early compositions reflected the music he had heard in America and the influences of European composers such as Edvard Grieg and Richard Wagner.