French composer Étienne Méhul stands in the history books as the first composer to be labeled a “Romantic”. His first symphony was written in the same year as Beethoven’s fifth, and shares a similar dramatic style. It would be revived thirty years later by Felix Mendelssohn, another figure of the early Romantic era.
French composer Étienne Méhul stands in the history books as the first composer to be labeled a “Romantic”. His first symphony was written in the same year as Beethoven’s fifth, and shares a similar dramatic style. It would be revived thirty years later by Felix Mendelssohn, another figure of the...