5. Characteristics
•Romantic Vocal Forms like art song and
operas were about fantasy, supernatural,
romance and the nature as mirror of the
human heart.
6. Characteristics
•In this period singers are require to
perform a greater range of tone color,
dynamics, and pitch.
•The birth of opera houses came.
7. Music o f the
Romantic Period
Famous Opera
Composers
8. Franz Peter Schubert
• born on January 31, 1828,
Austria and died at the
age of 31.
• Lieder, proper name for his
songs.
• He was considered as the last
classical composers and one
of the first romantic ones.
9. Franz Peter Schubert
•FAMOUS WORKS
•Gretchen am Spinnrade
•Erlkonig
•Ellens Gesang III (Ave
Maria)
•Swan Song
•Unfinished Symphony
10. GIUSEPPE VERDI
• born on October 9, 1813, Italy
and died on January 27,
1901.
• His characters are mostly
ordinary people and insisted a
good libretto with political
overtones and for middle-class
audience.
• Most of his works are serious
love story with unhappy ending.
• Expressive vocal melody is
the soul of a Verdi Opera.
12. GIACOMO PUCCINI
•He was born in a
poor family on
December 22, 1858,
Italy.
•He studied at the
Milan Conservatory
and belonged to a
group of composers
who stressed
realism.
14. RICHARD WAGNER
•He was born in Leipzig,
Germany on May 22,
1813.
•He attended Leipzig
University.
•Very much inspired by
Ludwig Van Beethoven.
•He introduced new ideas in
harmony and in form,
chromaticism.
15. RICHARD WAGNER
•He was an advocate of a
new form of opera which
is called “music drama”
where musical and
dramatic elements were
fused together.
•The expressiveness is aided
by the use of leitmotifs or
musical sequences standing
for a particular character/plot
element.
16. •FAMOUS WORKS
•Tristan and Isolde
•Die Walkyrie
•Die Meistersinger
•Tannhauser
•Parsifal
Great influence with the
movie HARRY POTTER
and LORD OF THE RINGS
RICHARD WAGNER