The age of Romance and ballads at Palma's Conservatory

The period of Romanticism is typically said to have been only relatively short - the first four decades of the nineteenth century.

The cultural movement that was a sort of revolt against the Industrial Revolution and the rationalisation of the previous century, it did last longer. In music, for instance, there was the late Romantic era, to which composers such as the Austrian Hugo Wolf belonged; he wasn't born until 1860.

Music of the Romantic age was characterised, among other things, by lieder - poems set to classical music with two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody (polyphonic). While Wolf wrote hundreds of these lieder, another Austrian - Josef Anton Bruckner - wrote only twenty, only a few of which were ever published.

Studium Aureum is presenting a concert of Romantic ballads - El lied Romantic - featured among which will be Bruckner rarities plus works by Wolf, Fanny Hensel and Clara Schumann.