The document summarizes music of the Romantic period (1820-1910), highlighting several prominent composers. It describes the Romantic period as emphasizing emotion, imagination, and individual expression. Violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini and pianists Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, and Robert Schumann are discussed. Program music conveying images without words is mentioned, with Hector Berlioz and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as examples. Camille Saint-Saëns is also briefly covered.