Schubert and Berlioz. Schubert is a representative figure of early romantic music, and is also considered as the last master of classical music. He wrote the world-famous "lullaby" (beginning with "Sleep My Dear Baby"). Berlioz is a French composer and the main representative of French romantic music school. Kurt Saint Andrew, born in France.

Schubert lived in a transitional period between classicism and romanticism. His symphony style inherits the classical tradition, but his artistic songs and piano works are totally romantic. Berlioz had a far-reaching influence on romantic music, and his symphony Fantasia pointed out the creative path of romantic title music, which can be said to be a model of later title symphonies and symphonic poems.

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Early romantic music, like other sister arts, originated in the "Enlightenment Age" in Europe and the liberal and democratic ideas related to the French Revolution, which were several decades later than literary romanticism. Beethoven's later works have become the pioneers of early romanticism.

Composers born around 1800 formed the center of early romanticism. Schubert and Berlioz are representatives of early romantic music, and they formed their own unique schools from the traditions of Gluck, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

Later, romantic music was further improved by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin and Verdi, and reached its peak in the era of Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Liszt and Wagner. These composers and pianists formed the center of mid-term romanticism. As for the works of modern famous artists such as Mahler, Richard strauss and Rachmaninov, they belong to the late romantic music.

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