This document provides information on several prominent composers of vocal music from the Romantic period: - Giuseppe Verdi was an Italian composer known for operas like La Traviata and Aida that featured expressive vocal melodies. - Giacomo Puccini composed famous Italian operas including La Boheme, Tosca, and Madame Butterfly that drew from everyday life. - Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer considered the last classical and first romantic composer; he wrote famous art songs including "Erlkonig" and "Ave Maria". - Richard Wagner introduced new harmonic and formal ideas in his German operas known as "music dramas", such as T

1. COMPOSERS OFVOCAL
MUSIC
ROMANTIC PERIOD

2. Giuseppe Verdi
 Verdi was born in Parma, Italy on October
9, 1813.
 He studied in Busseto and later went to
Milan where his first opera “Oberto” was
performed in La Scala, the most
important opera house at the time.
 His famous works are La Traviata,
Rigoletto, Falstaff, Otello and Aida were
he wrote for the opening of the Suez
Canal.
 Expressive vocal melody is the soul of a
Verdi opera.
 He died in Milan, Italy on January
27,1901.

4. Giacomo
Puccini
 Giacomo Puccini was born in a
poor family on December 22, 1858
in Lucca, Italy.
 He studied at the Milan
Conservatory.
 He belonged to a group of
composers who stressed realism,
therefore, he drew material from
everyday life, rejecting heroic
themes from mythology and
history.
 Puccini’s famous operas were: “La
Boheme”, “Tosca”, “Madame
Butterfly”, and “Turandot”.

6. Franz Peter
Schubert
 Schubert was born on the 31st of January
1797 in Himmelpfortgrund,Austria
 The proper name for Franz Schubert songs
is lieder, which is the German word for
song.
 He is considered the last of the classical
composers and one of the first romantic
ones.
 His famous vocal music works/ Lieder
were: “Gretchen am Spinnrade”, “Erlkonig”,
“Ellens Gesang III” (“Ave Maria”) and
“Schwanenge sang” (“Swan Song”).
 He also wrote piano pieces, string quartets,
operetta and the Symphony No.8 in B
minor (“UnfinishedSymphony”)
 He died in 1828 in Vienna, Austria at 31.

8. Wilhelm Richard
Wagner
 Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born
in Leipzig, Germany on May 22, 1813.
 He was very much inspired by
Ludwig vanBeethoven.
 Wagner introduced new ideas in
harmony and in form, including
extremes of chromaticism.
 He was an advocate of a new form of
opera which he called “music
drama” where musical and dramatic
elements were fused together.
 His famous works are; “Tristan and
Isolde”, “Die Walkyrie”, “Die
Meistersinger”, “Tannhäuser”, and
“Parsifal”

10. Georges Bizet
registered with the legal
name Alexandre-Cesar-
Leopold Bizet, but was
baptized Georges Bizet
He was born October 25, 1838
in Paris, France.
Bizet became famous for his
operas.
His most famous opera is
“Carmen”.
Bizet died (June 3, 1875). He
was only36.