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| | Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Program Music |
 | | Strictly speaking, however, the presence of this kind of imitation does not, by itself, make a piece “programmatic.” The underlying theory of program music, as described by the man who coined the term, the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886), is that the composer must allow the program to determine the actual form of the piece. |
 | | Program music wasn't more popular than other kinds of music: none of the Romantic composers wrote program music exclusively, some went no further than the occasional picturesque title, and some, like Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), wrote virtually no program music. |
 | | One of the more heated critical and philosophical debates of the nineteenth century was the one between the proponents of program music and those who favored so-called “absolute music,” music whose appeal is made in “strictly musical” terms. |
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