Romantic

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Violin

Ernest Chausson as the first promoter of nascent impressionism

Ernest Chausson was a composer who, despite his rather humble body of work, still played a crucial role in the history...
Classical Guitar

Anton Diabelli: prolific composer and arranger excelled in publishing guitar and piano music for beginners

Anton Diabelli was an Austrian composer best known during the early Romantic period for his work as a music publisher... 1 comment
Organ

Organ symphonies by Louis Vierne, an eminent maestro of Notre Dame de Paris

Louis Vierne was an outstanding musician, teacher and composer of organ music who for almost 40 years held the... 2 comments
ORCHESTRA

The Skaters' Waltz: subtle harmonies of romantic dance music by Emile Waldteufel

Les Patineurs Valse or the Skaters' Waltz is arguably the most famous of Émile Waldteufel's works. A late Romantic ...
Classical Guitar

Dionisio Aguado's guitar method and tripodison guitar stand have been in use for 200 years

Dionisio Aguado y García was a Spanish composer who laid the foundations of modern performing techniques on classical... 4 comments
PIANO

Ferruccio Busoni as a great piano transcriber of Bach's keyboard music

Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian pianist, composer and theoretical writer whose creative period fell on the transitional... 1 comment
Classical Guitar

Ferdinando Carulli: the Parisian sensation and décacorde guitar inventor

Ferdinando Carulli was among the most influential Italian guitarists whose music, textbooks, and instrument design... 2 comments
ORCHESTRA

The Flower Duet of Lakmé: the love drama of an Indian girl and a British soldier made airborne

The Flower Duet is a famous operatic duet which popularity has spread far beyond interests of classical music audience...
Music Theory

Classic examples of the Phrygian mode through the music eras

From Middle Ages to modernity, Western music has been largely based on diatonic scales that organize seven notes into... 4 comments
PIANO

Spanish motifs contributed by Emmanuel Chabrier to the rise of Impressionism in France

Emmanuel Chabrier was a French composer of the Romantic era whose legal career forced him to study and write music... 1 comment
Classical Guitar

Serenata Española by Joaquim Malats: the piano piece that conquered guitar world

Serenata Española, written by Spanish piano virtuoso Joaquim Malats, has been the most popular work among guitarists for...
ORCHESTRA

The many attempts of Romantic composers to adapt Shakuntala love story from Mahabharata epic

The love story of Shakuntala is first mentioned in the oldest Sanskrit epic of the Mahābhārata which could be traced...
Classical Guitar

Giulio Regondi, the guitar prodigy behind early Romantic repertoire, was conned by false parent

Giulio Regondi was one of the most virtuosic guitarists of the early Romantic period who began earning flattering... 9 comments
PIANO

Gymnopédies: the ambient genre predicted by piano gems of late Romanticism

The term ambient music was introduced in the 1970s by the famous English experimenter Brian Eno who used newly invented...
Choir

5 African states adopted the liberation song by Enoch Sontonga as the national anthem

Nkosi Sikelel 'iAfrika has been the most frequently sung tune throughout the African continent for over a hundred years...
ORCHESTRA

The multicultural heritage of Granville Bantock from Celtic folk music to Eastern philosophy of Omar Khayyám

Granville Bantock was one of the most cheerful English composers whose rich heritage comprised more than 800 works which...
Classical Guitar

The major chapter of guitar history introduced by María Luisa Anido

The exceptional Argentine guitarist, composer and teacher María Luisa Anido played a crucial role in the expansion of...
PIANO

Beethoven's famous piano trio carried the genre to the Romantic era

Compositions written for a group of three instruments where the leading piano is usually accompanied by a violin and... 2 comments
PIANO

Mussorgsky's pictures redrawn for the prog rock exhibition

Piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition written by the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874 retains its innovative...
PIANO

Chiquinha Gonzaga defined Brazilian art by breaking down social barriers

Chiquinha Gonzaga started her professional career as a musician in the 19th century Brazil at a time when it was widely...
Classical Guitar

Guitar virtuoso Napoléon Coste suffered from acute piano phobia

The creative life of the brilliant French guitarist and composer Napoléon Coste happened to blossom during the Romantic... 1 comment
ORCHESTRA

The attractive sounds of Nordic Romanticism of Wilhelm Stenhammar

Swedish pianist Wilhelm Stenhammar was one of the few composers who remained faithful to the ideas of Romanticism in the...
PIANO

The American boom of Cécile Chaminade's Romantic piano

French Romantic composer Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade enjoyed considerable success, touring as a pianist and...
Cor Anglais

The alloy of melody and spoken word in the music of Reynaldo Hahn

Reynaldo Hahn was a Venezuelan-born—later naturalized French—composer, pianist, and singer who wrote in the French...
Classical Guitar

Enrique Granados' dramatic voyage was cut short by a German U-boat

Pantaléon Enrique Costanzo Granados y Campiña was one of the greatest pianists and composers of the Romantic period who...
PIANO

Gondolier songs as the inspiration behind the romantic genre of Barcarolle

Originally a Venetian gondolier’s song, Barcarolle is characterized by gently rocking rhythms reminiscent of the...
SONGWRITER

The timeless tragedy of Molly Malone

Not many songs can boast international recognition of being so deeply and fondly Irish the way Molly Malone does. Also...
Electric Guitar

Swedish Rhapsody variations for electric guitar

The painting Midsummer Eve bonfire on Skagen’s beach is a tribute to the artist colony in Skagen by Peder Severin Krøyer...
Clarinet

National holiday as a birthday gift for Denmark's biggest composer

Carl August Nielsen (1865-1931) was one of the major symphonists of the postromantic epoch and Denmark's most eminent...
ORCHESTRA

Florida orange plantations cultivated an overlooked English composer

Frederick Delius (1862–1934) was one of the most distinctive composers in the revival of English music at the end of the...

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