Geography of Music
Age of Revolution | Age of Romanticism | Age of Emerging Modernism | Age of Art and Ideology
The World in the Age of Revolutions, 1775-1825
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them...” – Declaration of IndependenceThe political revolutions that brought violent change to the United States and France had their roots in Enlightenment philosophy – a world view that celebrated a universe governed by natural laws and the power of an individual to discover them.
Composers such as Haydn and Mozart rejected the complex and heavily ornamented baroque style more suitable to the "Age of Kings" in favor of simpler, more defined formal structures that allowed for a more natural flow of expression suitable to the Age of Enlightenment.
