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1 Fine Arts 101 Chapter 9 Music of the Romantic Era

2 Romantic Era 1820-1900 Great expansion and divergence in music Works more complicated and chromatic Culture – shift toward middle class, away from nobility Age of many philosophers, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Marx, Nietzsche Individual styles Expansion of all elements Nationalism

3 Wrote 9 symphonies (Sym. # 8 –The Unfinished) Wrote 600 Lieder! Large body of chamber works Never made a secure living writing music Died at the age of 31 Erlkönig (Erlking) – YouTube Link YouTube Link Romantic Era (1820 – 1900) Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)

4 Abandoned Medical career for music Innovative & Daring Symphonie Fantastique – Programatic music – Idea Fixe – Musical “self portrait” – Harriet Smithson – YouTube Links Movment 4 Movement 5 Romantic - Berlioz

5 Pictures at an Exhibition Modest Mussorgsky (1839 – 1881)

6 PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION Modest Mussorgsky (1839 – 1881) Exhibition - A large-scale public showing, as of art objects or industrial or agricultural products. Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) Winslow Homer Girl with the Watering Can Auguste Renoir American Gothic Grant Wood Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci

7 PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION Modest Mussorgsky (1839 – 1881) Modest Mussorgsky (1839 – 1881) Balakirev CuiRimsky-Korsakov Borodin The Russian Five (The Mighty Handful)

8 PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION Modest Mussorgsky (1839 – 1881) Artist – Viktor Hartmann (Gave great support to the Russian Five – close Personal friend of Mussorgsky)

9 PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION Modest Mussorgsky (1839 – 1881) Promenade Mussorgsky Gnomus Promenade Mussorgsky The Old Castle Promenade Mussorgsky Tuilleries Children at play Bydlo Ox Cart Promenade Mussorgsky Ballet of Unhatched Chickens In their Shells Samuel Goldenbergand Schmuyle

10 PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION Modest Mussorgsky (1839 – 1881) Limoges Marketplace Catacombe, Sepulchrum Romanum Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua Promenade theme The Hut on Fowl’s Legs (The Hut of Baba Yaga) The Great Gate of Kiev (Click to Listen to Pictures at an Exhibition)Listen to Pictures at an Exhibition

11 1813-1883 Towering musical genius Outspoken; often critical Notorious individual The Ring of the Nibelung Leitmotif – music for person, event, feeling, etc. Leitmotif – Click above for explanation of Leitmotif Star Wars use of leitmotif (Link to Star Wars Leitmotifs)Link Romantic - Wagner

12 Smetana – Czech (Die Moldau)Die Moldau Chopin – Polish (Mazurka in Bb Major, #1)Mazurka Brahms – German (Symphony #4, Mov. 4)Symphony #4 Rossini – Italian (William Tell Overture)William Tell Holst –English (The Planets)The Planets Puccini –Italian (Nessun Dorma from Turandot)Nessun Dorma Sibelius –Finnish (Symphony #2)Symphony #2 Other Romantic Composers


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