Socio-political revolutions of this era encouraged artists to allow emotions to appear in their work. Composers thus left the impersonal characteristics of the Classical Period and interwove emotions into their compositions.
Many well-noted composers sprouted from this era:
- The Germans: Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner;
- Austrian Franz Schubert,
- Polish pianist Frédéric Chopin,
- French Hector Berlioz;
- Hungarian Franz Liszt - possibly "the greatest pianistic showman in history," (www.ipl.org/exhibit/mushist/#class) and
- Russian Peter Ilyich Tchaikovksy
To learn more about any of these, click on their names.
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