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As the modern piano evolved over the course of the 19th century, its expressive range increased. Many composers soon understood its potential as a vehicle for intimate and very personal expressions of emotion. They graciously provided us with a repertoire of extraordinarily affecting pieces of romantic piano music. <\/p>
Felix Mendelssohn <\/strong><\/a>so loved this genre that he wrote eight volumes of solo piano Lieder ohne Worte, <\/em>a genre invented by his sister, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel<\/a><\/strong>. So clearly, composers loved writing their most intimate music on the instrument, so here is the definitive list of the most romantic piano music ever written. <\/p> This passionate declaration of love by a young composer in his late teens has been a firm favourite of mine since I discovered the score in a secondhand music shop in Prague in the mid-1980s.<\/p> Immensely popular in Suk\u2019s own lifetime, it has enjoyed many different arrangements, and is now more often heard in a version for violin and piano than in its original form as a solo piano piece.<\/p> Its carefree romanticism is all the more poignant in the light of the darkness that entered Suk\u2019s music after the death of his wife Otilie, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s daughter, aged only 27.<\/p>Best romantic piano music<\/h2>
Josef Suk: P\u00edse\u0148 L\u00e1sky<\/em> (Love Song)<\/em> Op. 7 No. 1<\/h3>