Musicians in the Romantic Era

The Romantic era was mostly famous for the emotions, textures, and colors that found its way into music, a reform from the clean form of the Classical period. Everyone was interested in music and there were many people that were willing to pay for such kind of entertainment. Whether it was playing an instrument or composing masterpieces, several people lead the world of music into and throughout the Romantic era.

Ludwig Van Beethoven is claimed to be the one of most revolutionary musician ever. Born in Germany, into the family of a court musician, Beethoven already has music talents running through his blood. Beethoven was also famous for his attitude; he was very grouchy much of the time and insisted he was an artist not a performer for the courts. Aside from composing music independently, he played the piano. He was even taught by the famous Mozart at one point, but Beethoven's self pride created such a glow around him that he didn't care one way or the other. Later in Beethoven's life he began to go deaf. This was terribly harmful to his chances at continuing to be successful throughout his life, but he pushed onward. Even after Beethoven lost his hearing, he continued to compose music. He wrote Beethoven's 9th symphony after he was fully deaf and it's still famous to this day. It was Beethoven's innovative pieces that transformed the Classical era into the Romantic era.

Franz Schubert, another very major composer in the Romantic era is not as renowned today but contributed a lot to the musical world back when he composed his art. He was more of a quite composer and supported mainly by the people living around him during his thirty one years alive. Schubert was the first famous full fledged Romantic composer, for Beethoven composed Classical music early in his life. He is known for being a great melodist, but also, he was equally a master of harmonic marvels.

Franz Liszt lived a very long time and looked at music going to a very futuristic direction. Born in Hungary, Liszt grew up learning music early through his time with the piano. He preformed and lived in Paris for sometime after; this is where he befriended Hector Berlioz. Berlioz was born elsewhere in France and moved to Paris to study medicine (taking after his father). After not being able to take much more anatomy than he could handle, Berlioz left medicine for a more desirable career in music later on in his life. While he stayed in Paris, he was better known for his conducting than his composing. It wasn't until later in his life that his compositions became famous. Because both Liszt and Berlioz were so close in friendship there music also reflected one another's thoughts thus they were similar. Overall, these two composers lead a great deal of change for the future as their intentions were.

In total, each musician in the Romantic era had their own opinion on themselves and on where they thought music was headed, whether it was bringing music into the Romantic era or bringing it out of it, every musician lead their role in artistic and talented ways.