Timeline 4: The Romantic Era

  • Romantic Era Begins

  • Robert Schumann is born

  • Frederic Chopin is born

  • Franz Liszt is born

  • Johann Salomon and others found the Philharmonic Society

  • Erlkonig released

  • The Ophicleide is invented

  • Clara Schumann is bored

  • Weber composed Der Freschutz

    first German romantic opera
  • Napoleon Bonaparte dies

  • E.T.A Hoffmann dies

  • Cherubini becomes the director of the Paris Conservatoire

  • Royal Academy of Music opens in London

  • Bedrich Smetana is born

  • Carl Maria von Weber dies

  • Stephen Foster is born

  • Beethoven dies

  • Franz Schubert dies

  • Berlioz releases Beethoven Biography

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk is born

  • Symphonie Fantastique is released

  • Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung is published

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dies

  • Chopin's Mazurka in B-flat Minor is released

  • Johannes Brahms in born

  • Vincenzo Bellini dies

  • Antonin Dvorak is born

  • Schumann's Symphony #4 in Dm is released

  • Luigi Cherubini dies

  • New York Philharmonic is founded

  • Edvard Grieg is born

  • Felix Mendelssohn dies

  • Fanny Mendelssohn dies

  • Gaetano Donizetti dies

  • Frederic Chopin dies

  • Eastern Germany became the DDR

  • Le Banjo is released

  • Schumann's Variations in E-flat on an Original Theme is released

  • Robert Schumann dies

  • Edward Elgar is born

  • Klemenz Wenzel von Metternich dies

  • Isaac Albeniz is born

  • Ignacy Jan Paderewski is born

  • Frederick Delius is born

  • Stephen Foster dies

  • Jean Sibelius is born

  • Enrique Granados is born

  • Giocchino Rossini dies

  • Hector Berlioz dies

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk dies

  • Germany unified

  • Ma Vlast is released

  • The Moldau is released

  • Manuel de Falla is born

  • Bedrich Smetana dies

  • Franz Liszt dies

  • Wall between the two Germanys was torn down

  • Romantic Era Ends