Rachmaninoff, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, and others composed during the Romantic Era. Music from this era sounds boundless and free. Much of this music is programmatic — meant to describe something, perhaps a scene in nature, or a feeling.

1. Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5 by Sergei Rachmaninoff

2. Widmung (Dedication) by Robert Schumann, transcribed for piano by Franz Liszt

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