Timeline Four: The Romantic Era (1810s-1890)

Cherubini

Period: 1760 to 1842

Mayr

Period: 1763 to 1845

Beethoven

Period: 1770 to 1827

Reicha

Period: 1770 to 1836

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Period: 1776 to 1822

Reichardt

Period: 1779 to 1826

Paganini

Period: 1782 to 1840

Onslow

Period: 1784 to 1853

Maria

Period: 1786 to 1826

G. Rossini

Period: 1792 to 1868

Mercadante

Period: 1795 to 1870

Donizetti

Period: 1797 to 1848

Schubert

Period: 1797 to 1828

Bellini

Period: 1801 to 1835

F. Hensel

Period: 1805 to 1847

Felix Mendelssohn

Period: 1809 to 1847

R. Schumann

Period: 1810 to 1856

Chopin

Period: 1810 to 1849

Genres of the Romantic Era

Period: 1810 to 1890

Symphony, Opera, Lieder, Concertos, Choral, Tone Poems, Ballets, Sonatas, Oratorios

Stylistic Traits of the Romantic Era

Period: 1810 to 1890

Strong emotional content, Programmatic music, Large and grand productions, Individual feeling, Use of chromatic movement, Use of rubato, Sonata, variations, ritornello and rondo, Dynamics

Liszt

Period: 1811 to 1886

Verdi

Period: 1813 to 1901

Wagner

Period: 1813 to 1883

C. Schumann

Period: 1819 to 1896

Bruckner

Period: 1824 to 1896

Smetana

Period: 1824 to 1884

Strauss

Period: 1825 to 1899

Foster

Period: 1826 to 1864

Brahms

Period: 1833 to 1897

Cui

Period: 1835 to 1918

Queen Victoria is Crowned

1837

Balakirev

Period: 1837 to 1910

Bizet

Period: 1838 to 1875

Paine

Period: 1839 to 1906

Tchaikovsky

Period: 1840 to 1893

Saxophone Invented

1841

Dvorak

Period: 1841 to 1904

Sullivan

Period: 1842 to 1900

Grieg

Period: 1843 to 1907

Rimsky-Korsakov

Period: 1844 to 1908

Faure

Period: 1845 to 1924

Janacek

Period: 1854 to 1928

Humperdinck

Period: 1854 to 1921

Sousa

Period: 1854 to 1932

Harmonica Invented

1857

Elgar

Period: 1857 to 1934

Puccini

Period: 1858 to 1924

Wolf

Period: 1860 to 1903

The American Civil War

Period: 1861 to 1865