My Aesthetic Goals in the Piano Quartet
My Piano Quartet was composed in the fall of 1993, as part of my work toward an M.M. degree in
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Romanticism
Romanticism and the Enlightenment
The Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776, was one of the greatest highlights of the period in Western
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Growing up as a Romantic Composer in an Anti-Romantic Age
I decided at a very young age that I would become a composer and started writing little compositions from age
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The Great Darkness: Romanticism in the Mid-20th Century
Younger Romantic composers today may not understand the virulent anti-Romanticism and opposition to tonal composition that pervaded the musical establishment
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Rachmaninoff and the Twentieth Century
During much of the last century, Romanticism and tonality were held in virtual contempt by most of the musical establishment,
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What is Romanticism?
My music fits squarely within the movement known as Romanticism. Musical Romanticism is customarily associated with the nineteenth century and
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