3rd Quarter Lesson #2 MAPEH For Today's Learner 8 Romantic Period Composers

1. Romantic
Period
Composers

2. Frederic Francois Chopin
•He was born on March 1, 1810.
•He had his first formal piano
lessons in 1816.
•At the age of 7, he started
performing in public and
composed two Polonaises.

3. •By the age of 18, He had evolved
a personal and original style.
•His works evoke an infinite
variety of moods and are
described as almost elegant,
graceful and melodic.
•He was said to be the greatest
composer who wrote exclusively
for the piano

4. •He earned the title “The Poet of the
Piano” .
•He died of tuberculosis at the age of
39 on October 17, 1849.
•Some of Chopin’s famous
compositions are:
•Prelude in E Minor Op. 28, No.4
•Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2
•Polonaise in A Flat Major, Op. 53

5. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
•He was a Russian composer
born on May 7, 1840.
•He started taking piano lessons
at the age of 6 and became a
better pianist than his teacher
at the age of 9.

6. •He pursued his career as a civil
servant as this was the desire of
his parents.
•He only began studying music at
the age of 21.
•After finishing his studies on
harmony and counterpoint at St.
Petersburg Conservatory, he
became a professor of Music in
Moscow Conservatory.

7. •He made his greatest orchestral
work, Romeo and Juliet at the age
of 30.
•He underwent several emotional
disturbances. Among them are his
early separation from his mother
and his grieving when she died.
•But during these emotional years,
he achieved success on his works.

8. •He died on November 6, 1893.
•Many believed that he died of
cholera but nobody has proven
the real cause of his death.

9. •Among his popular works are:
•Symphonies No. 4 (1877),
No. 5 (1888) and No. 6
(Pathetique 1893)
•Romeo and Juliet
•Swan Lake 1976
•The Sleeping Beauty 1889
•The Nutcracker 1892

10. Franz Liszt
•He was born in Hungary on
October 22, 1811.
•He was recognized all throughout
Europe not only because of his
magnetic, irresistible appeal to
women but because of his
brilliant piano performing skills.

11. •He had his first piano lesson when
he was 6 years old.
•His teacher Carl Czerny taught him
piano techniques while Antonio
Salieri, who was then the music
director of the Vienesse Court,
taught him different techniques in
composition.

12. •One of his contribution in the field
of music were:
• inventing the Symphonic poem
or tone poem
•developing thematic
transformation in his musical
forms
•transcribing different pieces in
piano.

13. •Liszt died of Pneumonia at the
age of 74 in Bayreuth, Germany
on June 31, 1886.
•His famous compositions are:
•Hungarian Rhapsodies
•Les Preludes
•La Campanella
•Transcendental Etudes