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Introduction:
To be a romantic is a permanent state of mind and heart that can never be confined to any segment of time. ... The political challenges of the 1840s brought man Central European and German musicians to America, who carried with them the romantic traditions of Vienna and Bohemia. ... Lord Byron, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens and William Wordsworth became the standard-bearers of British romantic literature, while the German writers such as Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Uhland and Friedrich von Schiller helped to develop the German poetry of the time that the Lied was born, that indivisible union of words and music to which some of the greatest German romantic composers contributed their finest efforts. ...
A favourite form of romantic composition is the character piece for the piano. ...
The romantic concerto:
During the romantic age, the improved tonal capabilities of instruments, their greater adaptability to the detailed markings in scores, the advent of larger halls and audiences, as well as the increased virtuosity of performing artists combined to bring forth the "virtuoso concerto" to serve as an excellent musical medium of that time. ...
Concerted works in the romantic era:
The 19th century brought to life another genre of composition that has found much favor with performers and music lovers: the concerted piece for solo instrument and orchestra.
Approximate Word count = 1090
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