Piano during the Romantic Music Era

Piano during the Romantic Music Era
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Introduction
Romanticism refers to a movement of literature, music, and intellectual progress that lasted between the early 19th century and the mid-20th century. Romanticism can be viewed as the rejection of the dictates of harmony, order, calmness, rationality, balance, and idealization that epitomized classicism in general and neoclassicism in particular in the late 18th century. It was also considered the rejection of the enlightenment and 18th-century materialism and rationalism. Romanticism emphasizes the irrational, subjective, imaginative, individual, spontaneous, foresight, personal, emotional, and transcendence.; Since it was one of the components of romanticism, romantic music was greatly characterized by expressiveness and imagination. It refuted the long-held belief that literature, music, and art should be for the elites and intellects alone. The introduction of the piano resulted in artists expressing their ideas with greater imagination and expressiveness. Since romantic composers, artists, and writers wanted their art to be enjoyable and felt, they embraced the piano and used it to a greater impact. Instruments such as the piano made art during this fantastic, wild, magical, passionate, and mysterious. With such instruments, Romantic music was freed from the constraints that the rest of the world was similarly freed from. This paper examines the piano musical styles during the romantic period, such as piano four hands, piano ballade, Liszt’s body technique, Alberti bass, and jumpy left hand. Analysis of some of these techniques will be based on various workpieces from various composers such as Liszt, Chopin, and Schubert. However, before jumping into the analysis, it is crucial to briefly analyze music romanticism and the structures of a piano to have a better understanding of the background of piano musical style during the Romantic Period.[Qureshi, Sofia Sadique. “Importance of Romantic Period in Modern Day English.” Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science 9(9), 2021: 81-87.] [Qureshi, Sofia Sadique. “Importance of Romantic Period in Modern Day English] [Chapin, Keith. “The emergence of musical romanticism.” Cambridge University Press, (2021): 17-34.] [Djahwasi, Herry Rizal, and Zaharul Lailiddin Saidon. “An Analysis of Artistic form and Musical Perspective of Romantic Era Music.”. International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science 11(11), 2021: 1-13.]
Music Romanticism
Musical romanticism was characterized by an emphasis on individuality and originality, experimentation and freedom, and personal emotional expression. Franz Schubert and Ludwig van Beethoven bridged the romantic and classical eras because although their musical technique was typically classical, the highly personal sense of their music and their application of programmatic elements served as a crucial foundation for 19th century romantic composers. The possibilities of dramatic expression in music were expanded through the perfection and expansion of the instrumental element of music and the creation of new musical genres such as precludes, lied, intermezzo, nocturnes, interludes, capriccios, and maz...