Transition from Classical to Romantic music
The transition from the classical period of European Art music, which lasted around 1750 to 1820, to Romantic music, which lasted around 1800 to 1910.
Ludwig van Beethoven, by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820
The Classical Period was an era of classical music between roughly 1750 and 1820.
A young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a representative composer of the Classical period, seated at a keyboard.
A modern string quartet. In the 2000s, string quartets from the Classical era are the core of the chamber music literature. From left to right: violin 1, violin 2, cello, viola
Gluck, detail of a portrait by Joseph Duplessis, dated 1775 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Haydn portrait by Thomas Hardy, 1792