Oxford Music Online

Romanticism

Essays

• Romanticism
• Absolute music
• Austria
• Concerto
• Cult of the Genius
• France
• Germany
• Italy
• Leitmotif
• Oratorio
• Performing Practices
• Philosophy
• Piano
• Programme music
• Sonata
• String Quartet
• Symphony
• The Romantic lied
• Opera

Biographies

Composers

• Auber, Daniel-François-Esprit
• Beethoven, Ludwig van
• Bellini, Vincenzo
• Berlioz, Hector
• Bizet, Georges
• Brahms, Johannes
• Bruckner, Anton
• Cherubini, Luigi
• Chopin, Fryderyk Franciszek
• Donizetti, Gaetano
• Dvořák, Antonín
• Franck, César
• Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich
• Grieg, Edvard
• Liszt, Franz
• Mahler, Gustav
• Marschner, Heinrich August
• Mendelssohn, Felix
• Meyerbeer, Giacomo
• Musorgsky, Modest Petrovich
• Schubert, Franz
• Schumann, Robert
• Spontini, Gaspare
• Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich
• Verdi, Giuseppe
• von Weber, Carl Maria (Friedrich Ernst)
• Wagner, Richard
• Wolf, Hugo

Critics, Theorists, Influential Figures

• Stendhal
• Herder, Johann Gottfried
• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
• Hoffmann, E. T. A.
• Adler, Guido

Performers

• Paganini, Nicolò²
• Joachim, Joseph