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  2. Romantic music - Wikipedia

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    Romantic music is a stylistic movement in Western Classical music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly referred to as the Romantic era (or Romantic period). It is closely related to the broader concept of Romanticism —the intellectual, artistic, and literary movement that became prominent in Western culture from about 1798 ...

  3. Romanticism - Wikipedia

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    Eugène Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus, 1827, taking its Orientalist subject from a play by Lord Byron. Philipp Otto Runge, The Morning, 1808. Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

  4. Maurice Ravel - Wikipedia

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    Arbie Orenstein After two months of planning, Ravel made a four-month tour of North America in 1928, playing and conducting. His fee was a guaranteed minimum of $10,000 and a constant supply of Gauloises cigarettes. He appeared with most of the leading orchestras in Canada and the US and visited twenty-five cities. Audiences were enthusiastic and the critics were complimentary. [n 28] At an ...

  5. Romanticism in France - Wikipedia

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    late 18th-mid-late 19th century. Romanticism (Romantisme in French) was a literary and artistic movement that appeared in France in the late 18th century, largely in reaction against the formality and strict rules of the official style of neo-classicism. It reached its peak in the first part of the 19th century, in the writing of François ...

  6. Carmen - Wikipedia

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    Carmen (French: [kaʁmɛn] ⓘ) is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and ...

  7. Claude Debussy - Wikipedia

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    Debussy c. 1900 by Atelier Nadar (Achille) Claude Debussy [n 1] was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at ...

  8. Transition from Classical to Romantic music - Wikipedia

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    Contrast between Classical and Romantic styles. Classical music was known for its clarity and regularity of structure, or "natural simplicity", thought of as an elegant international musical style with balanced four-bar phrases, clear-cut cadences, repetition, and sequence. [1] Sonata form was the foundation for a large number of pieces which ...

  9. List of Romantic composers - Wikipedia

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    The Romantic era of Western Classical music spanned the 19th century to the early 20th century, encompassing a variety of musical styles and techniques. Part of the broader Romanticism movement of Europe, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gioachino Rossini and Franz Schubert are often seen as the dominant transitional figures composers from the preceding Classical era.