Listen to Schubert’s masterpiece setting of Ave Maria. Schumann is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. He is particularly renowned for his piano music ...

Brahms was one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era – the best Brahms works include symphonies, concertos and piano masterpieces. Brahms’s final symphony combines intellectual rigor ...

The more reserved, streamlined tastes of the Classical period were being replaced ... Things began to sour somewhat between the composers in 1835 following a poorly judged dalliance Liszt had with ...

The Romantic era gave birth to the virtuoso. Liszt was one of the greatest of his time, and wrote demanding piano music to show off his own brilliance. Chopin is also among the outstanding ...

In the Romantic period, composers further developed sonata form. Instead of modulating to the dominant, composers would choose keys which were less related). Sections were much longer in the ...

Composers added chromatic notes to their chords ... 13th etc are chords which have extra notes – through adding thirds on top of the seventh, ninth, eleventh, thirteenth etc.