The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of
European classical music that runs roughly from
1820 to
1900, as well as music written according to the norms and styles of that period. The Romantic period was preceded by the
classical period, and was followed by the
modernist period.Romantic music is related to
romanticism in
literature,
visual arts, and
philosophy, though the conventional time 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. The Romanticism movement held that not all truth could be deduced from
axioms, that there were inescapable realities in the world which could only be reached through emotion, feeling and intuition. Romantic music struggled to increase emotional expression and power to describe these deeper truths, while preserving or even extending the formal structures from the classical period.
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