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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman during the Romantic era. He is well known for having very dark poems which inspired many of Schubert's pieces. -
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Luigi Cherubini
Luigi Cherubini was an Italian composer during the Classical and Romantic periods. Although he was an Italian composer, he wrote French operas. -
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Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was the creator of German Romantic opera, Der Dreischutz (The Free shooter/Magic Bullet). He was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic Era and a cruical figure in the development of German Romantic Opera. -
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Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he did wrote in many other genres such as: sacred music, piano pieces, and chamber music -
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Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the Early Romantic era. Despite his short lifetime, he left a vast amount of music, including over 600 lieder. -
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Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Donizetti was an Italian composer who was best known for his 'almost' 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the Romantic era. -
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Hector Berlioz
Louis-Hector Berlioz was a French composer, conductor, critic and author during the Romantic era of music. He was a very innovative person and was the first person to become a "conductor". Berlioz is also well known for his program symphonies, he most famous opera being The Trojans. -
Trumpet Gets Valves
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Frederic Chopin
Frederic Francois Chopin was a Polish composer and a virtuoso pianist and was is deemed a "Poet of Piano". Because of his the tuberculosis, he had a very delicate playing style. His music is credited with originating modern piano music. -
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Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann was a German composer, pianist, and regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic Era. He was most important as an editor and promoter of music. -
War of 1812
A war between Britain and the United States over British violations on U.S. maritime rights. -
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Guiseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi was regarded as the most important Italian composer in the mid 19th century. He was primary known for creating operas, and often used Shakespeare as inspiration like Macbeth and Otello. -
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Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner was born in Leipzig, Germany and began composing operas that he called "Music Drama". He had some positions with regional opera companies. in 1843 appointed as the second Kapellmeister for the King of Saxony in Dresden. Wagner like to control everything and felt that he was the only one truly worthy of the task. He published an article in 1850 that was anti-Semitic called, "Jewishness in Music". -
McCulloch v. Maryland
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Clara Schumann
Clara Josephine Schumann was a pianist, composer and piano teacher during the Romantic Era of music. She was the wife of Robert Schumann, but she had a longer piano career than her husband because of an accident with Robert's hand. -
Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of Cordoba
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The Harmonica
In 1822 an inventor and musician from Berlin named Christian Bauschmann made an experimental instrument with fifteen reeds called the aura, designed mainly as a pitch pipe. This instrument would be later developed and called the "Harmonica" -
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Bedrich Smetana
Bedrich Smetana was a Bohemian composer and is best known for his programmatic cycle of 6 symphonic poems called Ma Vlast. He is considered the founder of program music, but lost his hearing and went mad. -
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Louis Moreau Gottschalk was an American composer and pianist during the Romantic Era. He was best known as a virtuoso pianist, and spent most of his career outside of the United States. -
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Alexander Borodin
Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Russian Romantic composer as was a part of the Group called "The Five", a group dedicated to producing a uniquely Russian timbre to classical music. -
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Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period. He was heavily influenced by Beethoven, so much so that he was often self-conscious about his work works. -
The telegraph is patented
The telegraph lead to an era of long distance communication through the use of Morse code. This Technology is ultimately the grandfather to all sorts of communicating devices such as radios/Tv's etc. -
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Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer who was part of a group called "The Five". He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often to defy the established conventions of Western music. His most famous compositions include "Pictures at an Exhibition" and "Night on a Bald Mountain"/ -
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Tchaikovsky
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer during the Romantic era. He composed serval ballets including: Swan Lake, The Nutcracker. -
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Antonin Dvorak
Antonin Leopold Dvorak was one of the first Czech composers to achieve worldwide recognition. He was mentored by Brahms, and often too interest in North American folk music. This is showcased with his Symphony titled "Symphony No. 9, From the New World" -
New York Philharmonic
In 1842, the New York Philharmonic was founded in New York and is currently one of the leading American orchestras. It is the oldest symphony orchestra in United State. -
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Edvard Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist during the Romantic era. He is widely considered to be one of the main Romantic composers, and his music is very nationalistic. -
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Rismky- Korsakov
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of Russian composers known as The Five. He is best known in the west for his orchestral works, though his operas are complex. -
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Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini was an Italian composer known primarily known for his operas. Although there has been some controversy, his operas stand as some of the greatest Italian operas ever created. -
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Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was an Austro-Bohemain Romantic composer who acted like a bridge form the Romantic era, to the modernism of the 20th century. His symphonies and his Lieder are most well known from him, but he was mainly a conductor. Mahler composed in a mostly Maximalist style, having everything be "over the top". -
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a Polish pianist and composer who became a spokes men for Polish independence. In 1919, he was the new nations Prime Minister and foreign minister, during which he signed the Treaty of Versailles. -
The American Civil War
The American civil war occurred between 1861-1865, between the southern states (Confederacy) and the Northern states (The Union). The Union won the war, occurring in the abolishment of slavery in the united states. -
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Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the late Romantic/early-modern periods. He is widely recognized as his country's greatest composer, and his music is often credited with having helped Finland develop a national identity during its struggle for independence from Russia. He is known for writing many Nationalistic music.