From Mendelssohn’s Elijah to his Scottish Symphony, here are some of the early Romantic composer’s most glorious pieces of ...

From failed revolutions in Hungary, France, and Austria (1848) to the formal establishment of Italy (1861) and Germany (1871), the Romantic period was ... and composer whose interests include styles ...

Famous Romantic composers include Tchaikovsky ... The rigid forms of classical music gave way to greater expression, and music grew closer to art, literature and theatre. Beethoven pioneered ...

Composers added chromatic notes to their chords and melodies to make their music more expressive. In the slow movement of Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2, the opening flute melody ...