Romantic Period ca. 1815-1900 Timeline Directory
DateEvent
1816Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini)
1821Der Freischuetz (Weber)
1822'Unfinished Symphony' (Schubert)
1823Wanderer Fantasy (Schubert)
 Euryanthe (Weber)
1826Overture to a Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)
1826Oberon (Weber)
1827Winterreise (Schubert)
 Der Vampyr (Marschner)
 Comite de mise en scene (est.)
1829Guillaume Tell (Rossini)
 Piano Concerto in F minor (Chopin)
1830Symphonie fantastique (Berlioz)
1831Norma (Bellini)
 Robert le Diable (Meyerbeer)
1833Hans Heilig (Marschner)
 Symphony no.4 (Mendelssohn)
1834Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik (est.)
1835Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)
 I Puritani (Bellini)
1836Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer)
1837Sonata in Bb minor (Chopin)
1841Schumann's 'Symphonic Year'
1844Flying Dutchmann (Wagner)
 Ernani (Verdi)
 Treatise on Orchestration (Berlioz)
1845Piano Concerto in A minor (Schumann)
1847Macbeth (Verdi)
1849Artwork of the Future (Wagner)
1850Lohengrin (Wagner)
1851Opera and Drama (Wagner)
 Rigoletto (Verdi)
DateEvent
1851Symphony no.4 (rev., Schumann)
 Sonata in B minor (Liszt)
1852Transcendental Etudes (Liszt)
1853Il Trovatore (Verdi)
 La Traviata (Verdi)
1854The Beautiful in Music (Hanslick)
 Les Preludes (Liszt)
 Das Reingold (Wagner)
1855Les Vepres Sicillienes (Paris, Verdi)
1859Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)
1861Faust Symphony (Liszt)
1863Les Troyens (Berlioz)
1864Piano Quintet in F minor (Brahms)
1867Don Carlos (Paris, Verdi)
1868German Requiem (Brahms)
1871Aida (Verdi)
 Societe Nationale de Musique (Paris)
1874Goetterdaemmerung (Wagner)
1874Symphony no.4 (Bruckner)
1875Carmen (Bizet)
1876Symphony no.1 (Brahms)
1882Parsifal (Wagner)
1886Otello (Verdi)
1888Symphony no.1 (Mahler)
1889Wolf's Liederjahr
1890Baudelaire Songs (Debussy)
1893Symphony no.6 'Pathetique' (Tchaikovsky)
 Symphony no.9 'New World' (Dvorak)
1894Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (Debussy)
1896Don Quixote (Strauss)
1899Verklaerte Nacht (Schoenberg)
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