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Johannes Brahms among classical
composers is well illustrated by his inclusionamong the "Three Bs" triumvirate of Bach,Beethoven, and Brahms. Of all the majorcomposers of the late Romantic era, Brahmswas the one most attached to the Classicalideal as manifested in the music of Haydn,Mozart, and especially Beethoven; indeed,
Hans von Bülow once characterized Brahms'Symphony No. 1 (1855-1876) as "Beethoven's Tenth."
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Edward Elgar. Classical musiclovers will know him, the rest of the
world has probably never heard of him,and that is a great shame. AnEnglishman who wrote “jovial” music,his works were popular, but fell out of favor when war hit. None of this is whyhe’s on this list, however. His lastgreat masterpiece, Cello Concerto in E
minor is the most powerful cello pieceI’ve ever heard in my life, and I still cry
every time I hear it. It’s an intimateportrait of an old man looking back onhis life while looking ahead to his owndeath. It doesn’t get more real than
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that, and the honesty of this concertocan’t be ignored.
Antonín Dvořák Dvořák was a classical
composer who created some of the most
depressing music you have ever heard. By the way,Dvořák is pronounced Dvor-zhak. Well, not exactly,
but that will sound a lot closer than how it looks.
It’s the “ř” that has a special sound that only
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Czech people seem capable of pronouncing, but
hearing it in English drives me nuts, because it’s so
far off. My favorite works from him are the
Slavonic Dances.
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Far from the troubled, coarse libertine that hasbecome an archetype of the Romantic composer,Felix Mendelssohn was something of an anomalyamong his contemporaries. His own situation—one
largely of domestic tranquility and unhindered career
fulfillment—stands in stark contrast to thepersonal Sturm und Drangfamiliar to his peers.Mendelssohn was the only musical prodigy of thenineteenth century whose stature could rival that of Mozart. Still, his parents resisted any entrepreneurial
impulses and spared young Felix the strange,grueling lifestyle that was the lot of many child
prodigies.
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Arnold SchoenbergThe father of atonal music and
developer of the twelve-tone system,Arnold Schoenberg is arguably the mostinfluencial of any 20th century composer.After Schoenberg, the centuries-old
necessity of a tonal base was thrown outthe window. Schoenberg, however, beganhis career following the footsteps of Mahler and Strauss, and in 1898 created
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one of the most beautiful pieces of late
Romantic music with Verklarte Nacht
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Ludwig van Beethoven is important to the 19th
Century because he is considered the first Romantic
composer. The compositions in his late period are
considered to be the Romantic compositions as they tend
to evoke more emotions, and one can even hear the
emotional struggle that Beethoven had gone through. His
use of musical “satz” is also particularly Romantic
because he often develops these satzs. Beethoven’s Violin
Concerto makes great use of developing musical satz andis an incredibly beautiful and Romantic piece.