Music appreciation

Generally speaking, romanticism is used to describe the period from 1820s to 19 18. 1880 music critic E.T.A Hoffman listed Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven as three "romantic composers", and Louis Spohr once described a passage in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony as "a very good romantic style". Strictly speaking, Mozart was a composer in the classical period, while Beethoven was regarded as the beginning of romanticism. At the beginning of the 20th century, due to the great changes of the mainstream music style, the music in the period of19th century began to be called "The Romantic Period's music", and later music history also adopted this distinction method.

Modern research on romantic music focuses on the elements that make up its music, such as the extensive use of folk music, which directly reflects the trend of romantic nationalism at that time. As early as the18th century, some elements of romantic music appeared in the music. The strong spirit and emotion shown in the hurricane movement became the pioneers of Gothic novels, while some operas with bloody and passionate styles appeared during the French Revolution, and romantic music began to show its unique style during this period. Lorenzo da ponte's opera script for Mozart, combined with Mozart's unique music, presents a new musical style with personal and free characteristics. The generation of romantic music regarded Beethoven as their ideal great composer-he tore it up and wrote a heroic symphony to protest against the authority of Emperor Napoleon. In Beethoven's Federio, he erected some typical opera scripts, such as "Saving the Hostage Opera", which was also a manifestation of music culture during the French Revolution, in order to praise all the radical cultural figures who expected freedom during the Vienna Conference.

In the music culture at that time, romantic music embarked on an open mass line, mainly relying on the support of sensitive middle-class listeners, rather than the sponsorship of insiders in the court. The performance form of Gong * * has also shaped a new generation of operas, and a large number of musicians have entered the stage by solo, the most famous of which include Paganini and Liszt.

Beethoven's extensive use of tonal changes has also inspired many new musical forms and structures, making it a brand-new development field in music. Especially the later piano music and string quartets proved that there is still a large undeveloped area in the music industry. As a writer, music critic and composer, Hoffman once advocated that instrumental music could have more expressive potential than singing music, which was considered unrealistic at that time. Hoffman himself is both a musician and a scholar. He encouraged music to tell a story "systematically", and many people became interested in it, although he was still criticized by other composers (such as Felix Mendelssohn). /kloc-various new developments in musical instrument technology in the early 20th century, such as the iron frame of piano and the winding of strings, enabled musical instruments to emit higher and wider bands and more timbres, and also enabled players to show their unique technical level. This technology not only expands the length of the piano, but also introduces more musical structures, creating many new types of music, such as standing opera overture, piano fantasia, serenade and concerto, which has become the center of romantic music.

In opera, Karl Maria von Weber's Magic Bomber Shooter has become a romantic classic based on folk culture, which combines supernatural horror and compact plot. Hector Berlioz, a Frenchman, also showed rich timbre and sound quality in his early works. As radicals who were later ridiculed as "future musicians" (according to Wagner's own statement), both Liszt's and Wagner's works have romantic worship of freedom, spirituality and charm and almost unconventional personal characteristics.

The period from 18 15 to 1848 is considered as the heyday of romantic music. Beethoven (who died in 1827) and Franz Schubert (who died in 1828) both finished their final works during this period, including Schumann (who died in 1828). Berlioz and Wagner began their creative careers at this time, and young Liszt and Felix Mendelssohn also made their mark at this time. After this period, with the death of Chopin and Paganini, Liszt withdrew from the performance stage, Wagner also suspended his composition until he was sponsored in Bavaria, while Berlioz still insisted on opposing the bourgeois liberal style with a radical musical line. Romantic thought in music can be said to have ended its primary influence stage and entered a broader romantic music period.