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Romantic Composers

Composers of the Romantic era of the nineteenth century, when music stressed personal feeling, national styles, programmatic stories and larger orchestras. A composer belongs here when the cited article calls the person a Romantic composer or places them in the Romantic period or tradition. It excludes the Classical composers before them and the Modernist composers after. Its composers wrote symphonies, songs, piano works and operas that often told stories or expressed personal feeling, many drawing on folk music of their own countries, and a composer is placed here by the label the cited article gives.

Romantic Composers
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Frédéric Chopin (Wikipedia)
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Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 1810-17 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the early Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Wikipedia)
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( chy-KOF-skee; 7 May 1840-6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period.
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Franz Liszt (Wikipedia)
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Franz Liszt (22 October 1811-31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period.
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Gustav Mahler (Wikipedia)
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Gustav Mahler (German: [ˈɡʊstaf ˈmaːlɐ] ; 7 July 1860-18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.
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Johannes Brahms (Wikipedia)
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Johannes Brahms (; German: [joˈhanəs ˈbʁaːms] ; 7 May 1833-3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff (Wikipedia)
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Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.
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Georges Bizet (Wikipedia)
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Georges Bizet (né Alexandre César Léopold Bizet; 25 October 1838-3 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic era.
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Wikipedia: Leo Delibes
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Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (French: [klemɑ̃ filibɛʁ leo dəlib]; 21 February 1836-16 January 1891) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his ballets and operas.
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Hector Berlioz (Wikipedia)
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Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803-8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, conductor and critic.
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Camille Saint-Saens (Wikipedia)
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Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (UK: , US: ; French: [ʃaʁl kamij sɛ̃sɑ̃(s)] 9 October 1835-16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.
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Edvard Grieg (Wikipedia)
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He is widely considered one of the leading Romantic era composers, and his music is part of the standard classical repertoire worldwide.
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Modest Mussorgsky (Wikipedia)
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28 March [O.S. 16 March] 1881) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five." He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period and strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.
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Felix Mendelssohn - Wikipedia
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Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809-4 November 1847), simply known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic era.
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Robert Schumann - Wikipedia
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Robert Schumann (; German: [ˈʁoːbɐ̯t ˈʃuːman]; 8 June 1810-29 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era.
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Wikipedia: Richard Strauss
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He was a leading figure of the late Romantic and early Modern era.
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Jean Sibelius, Wikipedia
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Jean Sibelius (; Finland Swedish: [ˈʃɑːn siˈbeːliʉs] ; born Johan Christian Julius Sibelius; 8 December 1865-20 September 1957) was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic and early modern periods.
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Richard Wagner (Wikipedia)
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He first achieved recognition with works in the Romantic tradition of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, but revolutionised the genre through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art"), which sought to unite poetic, musical, visual, and dramatic elements.
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Antonín Dvořák (Wikipedia)
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He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana.
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Giacomo Puccini (Wikipedia)
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Though his early work was firmly rooted in traditional late-nineteenth-century Romantic Italian opera, it later developed in the realistic verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents.
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Franz Schubert (Wikipedia)
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was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras
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