Romantic

Bruckner was a Romantic
composer and organist
whose monumental, grand
symphonic writing was
largely influenced by Wa...

Smetana's fiercely patriotic
and programmatic music
greatly influeced the young
Czech Antonin Dvorak.

Franck spent his days
composing and teaching
organ in Paris in the middle
of the nineteenth century.

This Romantic and
nationalistic Norwegian
composer wrote Norway's
national anthem. Grieg was
the first internationally re...

Along with Beethoven,
Schubert is often seen as
the first of the Romantics.
Although mildly popular, it
wasn't until after his deat...

Faure was the bridge
between Chopin's delicate
melodic sensitivity and
Debussy's colored,
impressionistic flourishes....

Best known in his day for
conducting, Mahler
composed large and
philosophically driven
Romantic era symphonic...

Offenbach composed light,
satirical operettas after
successfully resurrecting a
dilapidated theater in Paris
for his work.

When compared to the
emotional excesses of
Wagner, Brahms was the
great conservative
composer of the nineteen...

Mussorgsky's nationalistic
style is rougher, less trained
than his peers Tchaikovsky
and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Rimsky-Korsakov, along
with Mussorgsky, was part
of a group of Russian
nationalist composers
known as the Five. The Fi...

Strauss maintained his
thoroughly Germanic,
Romantic compositional
style well into the twentieth
century.

Schumann was the first
composer to write with no
thought given to accepted
Classical forms. Schumann's
tragedy began after he ru...