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Encyclopedia: Romantic music (8650 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. |
| Essentials of Music - Composers (658 words) |
| "Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. |
| If music has one advantage over the other media through which a person can represent the impressions of the soul, it owes this to its supreme capacity to make each inner impulse audible without the assistance of reason... |
| His early talent in music was rewarded by the support of a group of Hungarian nobles who subsidized his studies in Paris. |
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