Beethoven During The Romantic Period

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During the Romantic period, composers and other artists saw Beethoven as their artistic and spiritual hero leading to divisions with different interpretations of Beethoven’s music. The conservatives were more motivated in writing and composing absolute music while the radical progressives focused more on creating adjustments to the musical structure that included program music and chromatic harmony. Musicians including the Leipzig Conservatoire Joseph Joachim, Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann were a part of the conservative circle who were inspired by Beethoven and believed that by following in his footsteps they would remain dedicated to writing string quartet, symphonies and other forms of tradition related with the Classical period. However,