Why didn’t Classical composers from the Romantic era play up their catchy melodies in songs more?

Modern songs have verse-chorus-verse, which exaggerate the catchy chorus, the part that listeners want to hear, but when you listen to iconic passages in classical music, the composer seems to treat the catchy part as a rare delicacy, not revisited in the song unless abstractly. Why?

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Happy Birthday to two of the most famous Romantic-era composers, Johannes Jakob Brahms and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (who apparently never liked each other).........😊.....
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Similarly, the musical works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and the composers of the Renaissance, Classical, and Romantic eras put to shame today's animalistic noises recorded in batches of a few minutes...

Similarly, the musical works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and the composers of the Renaissance, Classical, and Romantic eras put to shame today's animalistic noises recorded in batches of a few minutes, churned out by the ton by studios profiting from selling to man the titillation of his basest instincts. Whereas the music of the golden era spoke to man's soul and awakened him to think of higher callings than the mundane grind of daily life, today's musical noises speak to man's most base animalistic instincts, distracting him from the realities of life by inviting him to indulge in immediate sensory pleasures with no concern for long‐term consequences or anything more profound. It was hard money that financed Bach's Brandenburg Concertos while easy money financed Miley Cyrus's twerks. The Bitcoin standard!

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I I apperantly share the same political ideas as Robert Schumann according to the politcal compass, who's regarded as the greatest composer of the Romantic era. Epic😎
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TIL: a group of composers in the late romantic era became known as the 'Boston Six' lapl.org/collections-reso…
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My Friday release is a lovely Nocturne by Johann Kaspar Mertz. This piece is from the Romantic Era and has similar elements to the work of Chopin and other pianist / composers of the day as Johann was likely inspired by hearing his wife play much of the popular Romantic piano music at the time. i youtu.be/81ChnBHXWhQ
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Biographies of Chopin, Tchaikovsky, or other romantic era composers

Hi all,

looking for the best biographies on romantic era classical composers, particularly interested in Chopin and Tchaikovsky.

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Is Romanticism a movement or an era? Could any 19th composers not be considered part of the Romantic tradition?
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Recommendations for late Romantic era composers with lush, decadent, Wagnerian/Mahlerian sound (e.g. Wagner, Lizst, Mahler, Strauss, etc.)?

Hey! My favourite era/style of classical music is the late romantic era, specifically the tradition from Wagner extending to Mahler and early Schoenberg (i.e. Gurrelieder)-unsurprising since Wagner and Mahler are my all-time favourite along with Bach.

My problem is it's so hard to find composers who wrote in this style, especially in the Austro-German tradition, with most composers seeming to be either on the side of the rather more throwback style of Brahms and Schumann or modernism (Schoenberg, Stravinsky), both of which I love but nearly as much as the one in between the two. There's just nothing that can give me goose bumps like Wagner and Mahler and would love to find other composers who wrote similar things, particularly their more romantic, sensual sounding music.

Examples:

Tristan prelude, Wagner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l25J7xdhhKc

"Es muss ein Wunderbares sein", song, Lizst: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpK9irt0u9M

Gurrelieder, cantata, Schoenberg (honestly listen to the whole thing, it's huge, but just a masterpiece): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qahTc253qZU

Symphony 6, Andante, Mahler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvUego50gVg

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What Your Favorite Composer Says About You (if you can’t tell I’m a romantic era stan for life)
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Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) was a Romantic era composer and pianist. He wrote (arguably) the best counterpoint of the 19th Century.
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TDIH: March 1, 1810, FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin was born. He was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%…
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FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%…
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Thoughts on Felix Mendelssohn? I am personally a huge fan, and have always found his music to be my favorite amongst all composers, and especially those of the romantic era.
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Samuel L. Jackson's child, Sampson, recorded the music of a popular Romantic era French Composer without using any equipment from a popular Korean electronics manufacturer.

Sam's son Sampson sung Saint-SaΓ«ns sans Samsung.

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A piece by a lesser known french composer of the romantic era youtube.com/watch?v=fc9_X…
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A tribute to Robert Schumann. Happy Birthday Schumann. He died July 29th, 1856, Age 46. Born in 1810. Widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the Romantic era. He was best known for such works as "Papillons" and "Carnaval" from 1834. youtu.be/QqEWbOzL_GQ
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Born today : February 3rd - Felix Mendelssohn, Composer, Pianist, Organist, Conductor, "among the most popular composers of the Romantic era", "The frequently intense and dramatic world of Mendelssohn's chamber works has been more fully recognized" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fel…
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Romantic Era Early Intermediate Composer

Hey guys,

I absolutely love the style of Tarrega but most of his repertoire is out of my reach at this point. I was wondering if there was other composer that has more late beginner - early intermediate piece to play.

Thanks guys!

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Born today : December 16th - Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer, Pianist, "A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lud…
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Born today : June 11th - Richard Strauss, Composer, "a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras", "known for his operas", "a prominent conductor throughout Germany and Austria", "along with Gustav Mahler, represents the late flowering of German Romanticism" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric…
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Born today : December 16th - Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer, Pianist, "A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lud…
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Explain the major composers of the Romantic Era of music as if you're The Raven (Poe)
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A performance of the Romantic-era Composer Frederick Chopin's Nocturne No. 19, Op. 72 No. 1

Here's the link to the performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW5p40rNccE Thanks for watching/listening, and hope you enjoy.

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Born today : January 31st - Franz Schubert, Composer, "ranked among the greatest composers of the early Romantic era", "died at 31, ill, impoverished and neglected except by a circle of friends who were in awe of his genius" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra…
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How would Romantic Era music be perceived by composers from the Classical era, if they had the chance to hear it?

My apologies if a hypothetical question like this was asked already.

What do you think Beethoven's, Mozart's, Haydn's, etc. reactions would be if by some miracle we could revive them and show them the works of Liszt, Chopin, Debussy, etc.?

I've been listening to a lot of composers from the Romantic Era recently, and their style is so similar to Classical, but in a very free-flowing, unstructured, almost "break-the-rules" avant-garde way. Some of Beethoven's later works sound mildly Romantic, so I'm assuming he was aware of the natural evolution of music. Mozart and Haydn also used a lot of accidentals in their music, but they were "perfectly" placed and structured, unlike Liszt's and Chopin's accidentals.

I'm assuming Classical era composers would be amazed by the works of the Romantic era composers, but humans can also be very resistant to change, and theres a chance they might have viewed Romantic era music as blasphemous. What do you think?

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Era: 1800s? Genre : Romantic Composer : Unknown Type: Piano piece youtu.be/jD-PbF3ywGo?t=15…
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A performance of the Romantic-era Composer Frederick Chopin's Nocturne No. 19, Op. 72 No. 1 youtube.com/watch?v=rW5p4…
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