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Essentials of Music - Composers (670 words) |
 | His musical activities continued in his spare time and he surrounded himself with educated and like-minded members of the middle class. |
 | As early as 1822 the debilitating effects of syphilis began to take their toll, and along with his health, his financial condition declined. |
 | His symphonies are relatively conservative in their approach to form, but Schubert infused them with a lyrical content that seemed to overflow these bounds. |
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Romantic music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3444 words) |
 | The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical music that runs roughly from the early 1800s to the first decade of the 20th century, as well as music written according to the norms and styles of that period. |
 | Romantic music is related to Romantic movements in literature, art, and philosophy, though the conventional periods used in musicology are now very different from their counterparts in the other arts, which define "romantic" as running from the 1780s to the 1840s. |
 | Music was regarded as a quasi-religious experience, and the "Philharmonic" society became part of a concert as a time for deep engagement in the music, in contrast to the less formal manners of previous concert life. |