Biography of music composers of the 19th
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10 of the best Romantic composers in classical music history
23 November , | Updated: 14 July ,
From the year to around , Western Classical Music was defined bygd its soaring melodies and ever-expanding orchestras, its originality and self-expression. Here are the composers who made it all happen.
The Romantic period. “So good, they named it twice”, in the great words of composer and Classic FM presenter, John Brunning.
The ‘Early’ Romantic period began around the year with then-Classical great, Ludwig van Beethoven, whose revolutionising of the symphony gave life to a new era in music history.
Fast-forward to the turn of the century, and music was looking wildly different to how it did in the Classical era (). The Late Romantics, composers like Rachmaninov and Mahler, were expanding the orchestra to unprecedented proportions, adding more colours and instruments and turning music into a vehicle to express the full spectrum of human emotion – from sorrow to joy, passion to g
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Ten Famous Composers of the Romantic Era and Their Causes of Death
Abstract
The musical composers in the Romantic Era (–) strived for compositions that expressed human life, including happiness, harmony, and despair. They lived in a period in which freedom of thought, expression of emotion, and inspiration by nature predominated. During this period, intensive trading with other parts of the world brought new microorganisms along, which made infections and epidemics very common. This article serves to address the cause of death and relevant biographic data of a number of well-known Romantic composers. Primarily, this review refers to clinically significant findings using reports that were retrieved from PubMed, Embase, and Google over the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries till 14th June This text dwells on diseases and the cause of death of ten composers, namely Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Liszt, Mahler, and Bruckner. It is evident that from the
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Private jets and full stadium concerts were not always the way of life even for a first class musician. From music as free gift to copyrights, the road was long and bumpy.
From gift to asset
Probably the most important milestone in music business was the introduction of copyrights. After this, music business in general is about these rights and their transfers among composer or songwriter, publishers and the consumer.
Prior to copyrights and modern thinking, music was not conceived as property belonging to someone. In ancient Greek and Roman times poetry and singing accompanied by music was regarded as a gift from the gods. As such, copyright was unthinkable. This mindset is still dominating later times like the Middle Ages. Especially true for sacred music of the Church, where such musical revelations were to serve the glorification of God. This approach to music and musician was dominant till the Renaissance.
Until then, the single most important musical development