<P> The best known composers of Classicism are Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Johann Christian Bach, Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert . Beethoven and Schubert are also considered to be composers in the later part of the Classical era, as it began to move towards Romanticism . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> R. Wagner Die Walküre </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> R. Wagner Die Walküre </Th> </Tr> <P> Romantic music (c. 1810 to 1900) from the 19th century had many elements in common with the Romantic styles in literature and painting of the era . Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature . Romantic music expanded beyond the rigid styles and forms of the Classical era into more passionate, dramatic expressive pieces and songs . Romantic composers such as Wagner and Brahms attempted to increase emotional expression and power in their music to describe deeper truths or human feelings . With symphonic tone poems, composers tried to tell stories and evoke images or landscapes using instrumental music . Some composers promoted nationalistic pride with patriotic orchestral music inspired by folk music . The emotional and expressive qualities of music came to take precedence over tradition . </P>

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