Music: The Romantic Era

The Romantic Era was truly discovered by Beethoven. He paved the way for the up and coming composers of music by starting to introduce new instruments to the and taking far more risks that anyone of his time or prior to it. The Romantic Era also brought back the use of vocals to accompany music, although the use of the piano was still more common than any other single instrument. This Era featured several famous composers that are still to this day important to our culture, yet some of these musicians were separated into two categories of competing styles; the Conservatives and the Radicals. The Romantic Era also got to feature the first pieces of music from the American civilization, with composers such as Stephen Foster and John Philip