Post-romanticism orPostromanticism refers to a range of cultural endeavors and attitudes emerging in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, after the period ofRomanticism.
The period of post-romanticism in poetry is defined as the mid-to-late nineteenth century,[1] but includes the much earlier poetry ofLetitia Elizabeth Landon[2] andTennyson.[3]
Post-romanticism inmusic refers to composers who wrote classical symphonies, operas, and songs in transitional style that constituted a blend of late romantic and early modernist musical languages.Arthur Berger described the mysticism ofLa Jeune France as post-Romanticism rather thanneo-Romanticism.[6]
Post-romantic composers created music that used traditional forms combined with advancedharmony.Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji created post-romantic nocturnes that used unconventional harmonic language andBéla Bartók, for example, "in suchStrauss-influenced works asDuke Bluebeard's Castle", may be described as having still used "dissonance ['such intervals as fourths and sevenths'] in traditional forms of music for purposes of post-romantic expression, not simply always as an appeal to the primal art of sound".[7]
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