He was born Halldor Gudjonsson in 1902 on April 23 -- Shakespeare's birthday, biographers have noted -- but after spending his boyhood on his father's prosperous sheep farm, he took the pen name of Laxness, which means "salmon peninsula". He studied the violin and piano, and as a youth began mimicking Icelandic verse sagas and composing romantic tales.
It was in its French classics folder that I stumbled upon Jean Renoir's 1936 miniature Partie de campagne: 40 minutes of refined but playful bliss, as light and sheer in its carnality as lace delicates, it composes a romantic roundelay from a simple country picnic.
A recent Atlantic Monthly article describes how researchers measured the physiological responses of individuals composing either romantic emails or voicemails and found that the written word sets hearts more aflutter when compared to leaving our loving feelings "after the beep".
She is remembered mostly as a "woman poet" who composed lilting, rhythmic, romantic verse and whose work, at best, is a kind of guilty pleasure, poetry that rhymes.
Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms composed in the Romantic idiom.
Among the medieval authors born within the territorial limits of modern Azerbaijani Republic was Persian poet and philosopher Nizami, called Ganjavi after his place of birth, Ganja, who was the author of the Khamseh ("The Quintuplet"), composed of five romantic poems, including "The Treasure of Mysteries," "Khosrow and Shīrīn," and "Leyli and Mejnūn".
Instead of performing the post-tonal works that most people have in mind when they say they dislike Schoenberg, they choose youthful scores like "Verklärte Nacht," "Pelleas und Melisande" or, if they have the budget, "Gurre-Lieder" — intensely Romantic works, composed long before serialism was a glint in the composer's eye.
The moon will shine without them". Which romantic hero composed this comforting nursery rhyme?
The Romantic poet composed one of his most famous works after taking laudanum in 1797.
The Goldmark is a rarity, but nothing could be more listener-friendly than this tuneful Romantic charmer composed in 1876.
