The Byronic hero
Lord Byron ( 1788-1824)
Biography
Byron's influence on music
Byron and the Risorgimento
Works
Some works by Lord Byron
- CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE (from 1811 to 1817), a poem in 4 Cantos, loosely based on his adventures
- MANFRED (1817)
- HIs masterpiece DON JUAN (1818), an epic-satire novel in verse based on the story of a legendary hero.
Lord Byron and the Risorgimento.
As an activist poet, Lord Byron was a model for the intellectuals who were fighting for the freedom and the glory of Italy. During his stay in Italy, in Ravenna, he closely cooperated with the Carbonari, a revolutionary movement trying to re-establish the Italian constitutional monarchy in Italy. He played an active role by smuggling guns, making plans of attack and commanding his own small regiment in 1821.
The Byronic hero,
For Byron life was like a continuous earthquake, an eternal fever. He himself was the symbol of the Romantic hero or 'the Byronic hero', a man with great fascination and a mysterious seductive power. Intelligent and sensitive he also revels a dark side full of disillusionment and nostalgia. His poems express strong criticism towards society and a strong passion for human freedom. He fought for workers' rights and social reforms as well as for the freedom from the oppressor in Italy and in Greece
Stravinsky and Proust
Lord Byron, or George Gordon Byron, a rebel, the prototype of the 'Romantic hero'.
He was born in 1788. He was a handsome aristocratic young man. When he was 20, he left for on a TOUR OF THE MEDITERRANEAN, travelling to PORTUGAL, SPAIN, ALBANIA, TURKEY, ITALY and GREECE. In 1812 he pubblished the first two Cantos of his masterpiece Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and he became very famous all of a sudden. In England he was accused of incestuous relatioship with his step-sister and he was forced to flee from England and never to return. With the poet Shelley whe went to Switzerland first and then to Italy, in Venice and in Ravenna, where he supported the revolutionary Carbonari movement. He then moved to Greece where he supported the cause of the Greek liberation from Turkish oppression. During an expedition he died of fever in 1824 at the age of 36. His heart was buried in Greece where he is considered a national here.
Byron's influence on 19th century music
A lot of works by Byron have been adapted by musicians to create new works of art such as > MANFRED inspired the homonymous ouverture and the music by Robert Schuman > LE CORSAIRE and HAROLDE EN ITALIE by Luis Hector Berlioz but above all IL CORSARO and I DUE FOSCARI by Giuseppe Verdi
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The Byronic hero
Lord Byron ( 1788-1824)
Biography
Byron's influence on music
Byron and the Risorgimento
Works
Some works by Lord Byron
Lord Byron and the Risorgimento.
As an activist poet, Lord Byron was a model for the intellectuals who were fighting for the freedom and the glory of Italy. During his stay in Italy, in Ravenna, he closely cooperated with the Carbonari, a revolutionary movement trying to re-establish the Italian constitutional monarchy in Italy. He played an active role by smuggling guns, making plans of attack and commanding his own small regiment in 1821.
The Byronic hero,
For Byron life was like a continuous earthquake, an eternal fever. He himself was the symbol of the Romantic hero or 'the Byronic hero', a man with great fascination and a mysterious seductive power. Intelligent and sensitive he also revels a dark side full of disillusionment and nostalgia. His poems express strong criticism towards society and a strong passion for human freedom. He fought for workers' rights and social reforms as well as for the freedom from the oppressor in Italy and in Greece
Stravinsky and Proust
Lord Byron, or George Gordon Byron, a rebel, the prototype of the 'Romantic hero'.
He was born in 1788. He was a handsome aristocratic young man. When he was 20, he left for on a TOUR OF THE MEDITERRANEAN, travelling to PORTUGAL, SPAIN, ALBANIA, TURKEY, ITALY and GREECE. In 1812 he pubblished the first two Cantos of his masterpiece Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and he became very famous all of a sudden. In England he was accused of incestuous relatioship with his step-sister and he was forced to flee from England and never to return. With the poet Shelley whe went to Switzerland first and then to Italy, in Venice and in Ravenna, where he supported the revolutionary Carbonari movement. He then moved to Greece where he supported the cause of the Greek liberation from Turkish oppression. During an expedition he died of fever in 1824 at the age of 36. His heart was buried in Greece where he is considered a national here.
Byron's influence on 19th century music
A lot of works by Byron have been adapted by musicians to create new works of art such as > MANFRED inspired the homonymous ouverture and the music by Robert Schuman > LE CORSAIRE and HAROLDE EN ITALIE by Luis Hector Berlioz but above all IL CORSARO and I DUE FOSCARI by Giuseppe Verdi