Ideologies during the Nineteenth Century

Liberalism is the political philosophy emphasizing the value of individual liberty and the role of the state in protecting the rights of its citizens. The idea of liberalism meant specific individual freedoms such as: freedom of press, freedom on speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom from arbitrary arrest. By the early 19th century France with it's Constitutional Charter and Britain with it's Parliament and historic rights of English men and women were the only two …

…life. Romantics were driven by a sense of an unlimited universe and by a yearning for the unattained, unknown, and the unknowable. During romanticism composers created music that expressed emotions of human intensity that had never been heard before. Great masters of music including Beethoven and Chopin created immortal music that will forever live though history. Most romantics saw the growth of modern industry as ugly, brutal attack on their human personality and nature itself.