Berlioz - The Ultimate Romantic?

[kea]

I think for most people, the modern idea of "romantic music" comes from the music that's played in the background to a "romantic" movie—ie one where you don't have to get bogged down in complexities of morality or emotion or any particularly difficult philosophical questions—and that kind of music was created mostly by Richard Strauss protégés such as EW Korngold and Max Stirner, and therefore anything that sounds more like that is "romantic" (eg Mahler, John Williams, Ludovico Einaudi, any part of the Ring Cycle that appeared in a Hollywood film) and anything that sounds less like it isn't (eg Berlioz, Dvořák, Liszt, all remaining parts of the Ring Cycle).

[Richard Tarleton]

Expressionism - in music and painting - is arguably an extension of the Romantic, with its taking of subjectivity to the ultimate.

I too very much agree with this.

And perhaps more obviously Impressionism - Turner the ultimate Romantic/first Impressionist.....