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Romantics Unbound | Romanticism Studies--Music |
 | | s with poets, writers, and painters, musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries were influenced by the historical, social, political, and aesthetic "revolutions" of the era, attempting to capture the essence of the age as well as (re)create that essence through musical expression. |
 | | They reacted against the formal Classicism of the eighteenth century in which such composers as Mozart and Haydn created absolute music or pure music for music's sake, drama was found mainly in opera, and the personality of the soloist was subsumed by the composition and orchestra as a whole. |
 | | Yes, high Romantic music dominated the 19th century; however, Romanticism is also representative of a mood and style that reappears in various forms in the 20th century, a rather difficult century to categorize neatly and conveniently, even for the sake of study. |
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