Romantic – General
Notable Romantic Era Composers (1820 – 1900)
If you wish to be generally familiar with classical music, here is a short list of composers you should know from this period.
Name | Birth | Death | Nationality | Representative Pieces |
Beach, Amy ML410 .B36 | 1867 | 1944 | American | Three Browning Songs (voice and piano) Gaelic Symphony (orchestra) |
Brahms, Johannes ML410 .B8 | 1833 | 1897 | German | Liebeslieder Waltzes (choir and piano 4 hands) Violin Concerto German Requiem (mass) |
Chopin, Frédéric ML410 .C54 | 1810 | 1849 | Polish | Nocturnes (piano) Mazurkas (piano) Minute Waltz (piano) |
Dvořák, Antonín ML410 .D99 | 1841 | 1904 | Czech | Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” Rusalka (opera) String Quartet no. 12 “American” |
Liszt, Franz ML410 .L7 | 1811 | 1886 | Hungarian | Hungarian Rhapsodies (piano) Les Préludes (orchestra) Marche Funèbre (piano) |
Mahler, Gustav ML410 .M23 | 1860 | 1911 | Austrian | Symphony No. 5 (orchestra) Symphony No. 9 (orchestra) Kindertotenlieder (song cycle, voice and orchestra) |
Mendelssohn, Felix ML410 .M5 | 1809 | 1847 | German | A Midsummer Night’s Dream (orchestra) Symphony No. 4 “Italian” Songs Without Words (piano) |
Puccini, Giacomo ML410 .P89 | 1858 | 1924 | Italian | La Bohème (opera) Tosca (opera) |
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai ML410 .R52 | 1844 | 1909 | Russian | Capriccio Espagnol (orchestra) Flight of the Bumblebee (orchestra) (from the opera Tale of the Tsar) Scheherazade (orchestra) |
Rossini, Gioacchino ML410 .R8 | 1792 | 1868 | Italian | The Barber of Seville (opera) William Tell (opera) |
Saint-Saëns, Camille ML410 .S15 | 1835 | 1921 | French | Symphony No. 3 “Organ” Danse Macabre (orchestra) The Carnival of the Animals (chamber) |
Schumann, Robert ML410 .S4 | 1810 | 1856 | German | Kinderszenen (piano) Carnaval (piano) Dichterliebe (song cycle) |
Sousa, John Philip ML410 .S688 | 1854 | 1932 | American | The Washington Post (march) The Stars and Stripes Forever (march) The Liberty Bell (march) |
Strauss, Johann II ML410 .S91 | 1825 | 1899 | Austrian | The Blue Danube Waltz (orchestra) Die Fledermaus (operetta) |
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich ML410 .C4 | 1840 | 1893 | Russian | The Nutcracker (ballet) Swan Lake (ballet) 1812 Overture (orchestra) Eugene Onegin (opera) Symphony No. 6 “Pathetique” |
Verdi, Giuseppe ML410 .V4 | 1813 | 1901 | Italian | Aida (opera) Rigoletto (opera) Requiem (mass) |
Wagner, Richard ML410 .W1 | 1813 | 1883 | German | The Ring Cycle (4 operas) Tristan und Isolde (opera) Parsifal (opera) |