HUAS78035 - Late Romantics

Course Description

The period from 1840 (Tchaikovsky’s birth) to World War I saw a seismic shift in the agendas and techniques of Romantic composers. The early Romantic generation of Chopin and Mendelssohn had used modest means -- piano solos, lieder, and intimate chamber music -- as a platform for introspective, often quirky, personal expression. Their successors employed far grander means -- opera, ballet, large-scale symphonic works -- for more public, even political expression. Whether obsessed with imperial, nationalistic, or purely philosophical themes, these composers-Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Strauss, Mahler, Bruckner, and others-were as revolutionary as any who came before them.

Notes

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