where does teh Romantic period start and end?

Question

which country and who did it start from. who are the main players in this period?

Answer 1

In continental Europe, the Romantic period started with Napolean in about 1805. Napolean was from a low noble family so he was more akin to the common person rather than royalty. In England, it supposedly started earlier yet the true Romantic era started and ended with Napolean's reign of Europe.

Answer 2

I'm going to complicate matters because the word romantic means different things in different contexts. You've already had a good answer as regards music. In literature romantic literature was at least in England something that relied much more upon the sentiments of the human heart than upon the conventions of society so poets like Wordsworth marvelled at nature and the natural world.

More broadly romanticism was a philosophical movement which reacted against the Enlightenment understanding of the world based on rationality. Romantics like Herder or Hamman argued that nationality, nature and literature illustrated as much of human nature as did the scientific revolution.

As to dates, the problem is that you could extend each kind of Romanticism backwards and forwards. There are no fixed dates. Romanticism was most popular around the turn of the 18th Century and into the 19th Century peterin out gradually in the mid-19th Century- though philosophers like Neitsche could still be seen in the same template and thinkers like John Stuart Mill changed their views of the world through reading Romantic poetry.

Ideas though don't have strict periods like people do- dates when they are born and died and they spread across the continent taking different forms in different countries: so poetical forms were most found in the UK, Germany originated lots of philosophy etc.

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Answer 3

Romantic (1815 – 1910)

The era of Romantic music is defined as the period of European classical music that runs roughly from the early 1800s to the first decade of the 20th century, as well as music written according to the norms and styles of that period. The Romantic period was preceded by the classical period, and was followed by the modern period.

Romantic music is related to Romantic movements in literature, art, and philosophy, though the conventional periods used in musicology are now very different from their counterparts in the other arts, which define "romantic" as running from the 1780s to the 1840s. The Romanticism movement held that not all truth could be deduced from axioms, that there were inescapable realities in the world which could only be reached through emotion, feeling and intuition. Romantic music struggled to increase emotional expression and power to describe these deeper truths, while preserving or even extending the formal structures from the classical period.

The vernacular use of the term romantic music applies to music which is thought to evoke a soft or dreamy atmosphere. This usage is rooted in the connotations of the word "romantic" that were established during the period, but not all "Romantic" pieces fit this description. Conversely, music that is "romantic" in the modern everyday usage of the word (that is, relating to the emotion of love) is not necessarily linked to the Romantic period.

Answer 4

1820-1900 Wikipedia has a lot of information on the period