What period of romanticism do you prefer?

[PaulR]

You could argue that. A lot of his later works have an inwardness that foreshadow Brahms' late piano works.

Brahms was also on the later end of middle romantic period, but had his own fight of conservatism against the "music of the future" people

[kyjo]

Guys, do you think Brahms should be classified as mid-romantic or late-romantic? I've always classified him as the former, since his music has such strong ties to the classical tradition and eschews the excess (not in the pejorative sense) often found in late-romantic music.

[mszczuj]

And your reasoning for this? He did have an influence on late-romantic composers such as Liszt and Rachmaninov, but where in his output can the chromatic tension and great outbursts of passion of the late-romantics be found? Just curious.

First we must ask who is Chopin? The composer of concertos or the composer of the Polonaise-Fantaisie, Fantasy, Barcarole, Berceuse, Scherzos, Sonatas? As we decided that the latter and as we agree that harmonic lushness is the main point here we must agree that he, the creator of this lushness, deserves to be listed as the late romantic.

On the other hand I would rather put Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff into the mid-romantic division.

Of course if we think about it in the terms of the style. If not, we could trying to categorize it all chronologically and then there are some great turning points about 1831, 1858, 1914.

[Daverz]

Late post-neo-Romanticism.

[kyjo]

Late post-neo-Romanticism.

[North Star]

Lets put every composer in a box and be done with it.


I agree with mszcuj on Chopin, though, he was very modern indeed back then, and in addition to the harmonic language (some great examples in the Preludes & Etudes, too), the structure of the Mazurkas was very inventive indeed. Chronologically he should be 'middle' in this list, but musically definitely in the late, if Beethoven is included as a romantic at all.

[The new erato]

I was going to say foreplay but see I'm in the wrong thread.

[71 dB]

It was easy to vote for late-romantic period.

Guys, do you think Brahms should be classified as mid-romantic or late-romantic? I've always classified him as the former, since his music has such strong ties to the classical tradition and eschews the excess (not in the pejorative sense) often found in late-romantic music.

I agree with you, mid-romantic Brahms is...