Objective 29: The students will demonstrate understanding by

examining music of the romanticism era

Richard Wagner

Photo with his Wife Cosima, Franz Liszt's Daughter

Beethoven's story is one of personal triumph over tragedy and supreme musical achievement. A complex and brilliant man, no composer before or since has exerted greater influence.

And you thought you had messy handwriting.

This is a page of "Immortal Beloved" a love letter Beethoven wrote but never mailed. He constantly searched – but never found love.

When, early in 1827, he died, 10,000 are said to have attended the funeral. He had become a public figure, as no composer had done before. Unlike composers of the preceding generation, he had never been a purveyor of music to the nobility he had lived into the age - indeed helped create it - of the artist as hero and the property of mankind at large.

Piotr Tchaikovsky1840-1893

• Struggling with his homosexuality, he thrust himself into a marriage with a young women who admired his music. This ended disastrously, with a near nervous breakdown. Never the less, during this time, he composed two of his most famous works: the Fourth Symphony and Eugene Onegin. • In the late 1870, me composed his

brilliant Violin Concerto.

•In 1888, he composed the Fifth Symphony, which was a lot like the fourth.•The next three years saw the composition of two ballets: the finely characterized Sleeping Beauty , and the more decorative Nutcracker.

• Beethoven- 5th symphony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMnlxYkZKaU• Wagner- The Ride of the Valkyries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeRwBiu4wfQ • Tchaikovsky- Waltz of the Flowers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxHkLdQy5f0