Please ask about the five major classifications of symphonic music and their respective characteristics

Symphonic music and symphonic music, it refers to the large orchestra by the rich symphonic musical works and its performance form. Symphonic music is an elegant music category with high grade in the art of music. Broadly speaking, symphonic music includes symphonies, suites, symphonic poems, symphonic paintings, overtures, concert dances, concertos, rhapsodies, fantasies and other genres of music. Symphonies have a longer length, can accommodate more content, easy to reflect the major themes, and written with great depth. Excellent symphonic works often reflect the lofty spiritual world, deep philosophical thinking, rich inner emotional experience, different aspects of social life and sharp dramatic conflicts. A suite is a set composed of several instrumental pieces. The combination of the movements of a suite is free, and the contrast between the movements is very strong. It is a genre that is good at showing the world's customs, and it is divided into two categories: classical suites and new suites. Symphonic poem, also called tone poem, is a single-movement title symphonic music work. Symphonic poem is the youngest genre in classical symphonic music, and it first appeared in the middle of the 19th century in the works of the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. Symphonic tone paintings are similar to symphonic poems in that they are also single-movement title symphonic music. The overture is one of the oldest instrumental genres, and it plays a very important role in the development of other instrumental genres, especially the ornament to the song and symphonic poem.

Symphonic music in the second half of the 18th century developed into an important stage, that is, the period of classicism, under the influence of the Enlightenment, the composers of the classical school of music advocate rationality, the pursuit of formal structural rigor of the concept in the symphony of this musical genre in the fullest play, the classicism symphony is a pure acoustic and structural balance of the main characteristics of the representative characters are Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

Haydn composed 104 symphonies. Symphonies as a genre of music, is to Haydn's symphony works as a symbol of the gradual formation of the symphony, he identified a four-movement symphony of the normative form and double-control orchestra system, showing a variety of thematic development techniques, his music is cheerful and optimistic, full of the breath of life and fresh idyllic style, emotionally sincere, skillful. He is known as the "Father of the Symphony".

Romanticism is a literary and artistic trend that arose in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and it is the development of classicism, as well as the negation of classicism. Romantic music arose with Romantic literature and was formed in the 1820s. Its main characteristic is to focus on the expression of personal feelings, music is free and unrestrained, and the form is less constrained. Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Bruckner, Brahms and others inherited the tradition of the Classical School, and wrote a number of symphonies overflowing with Romantic poetry under the influence of Romantic literary thinking. Composers such as Wilber, Rossini, Verdi, Bizet and especially Wagner expanded the expressive power of the orchestra in opera, turning it into a grand dramatic "symphony". The title symphonies of Berlioz and Mahler, the symphonic poems of Liszt, Franck and Saint-Sa?ns, the suites for orchestra of Bizet and Massenet, the concertos of Mendelssohn, Chopin, Brahms and Paganini, the waltzes of Johann Strauss, the dances of Wagner, and so on. Strauss's Waltzes, ...... are truly colorful and luminous.

As a branch of Romanticism, national schools of music in various countries also made their mark, and the symphonic music of Smetana, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Grieg, Sibelius and others showed valuable national characteristics, making the whole Romantic period of creativity seem more colorful and varied.

Entering the 20th century, Mahler, Richard Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Elgar, Vaughan? Williams and other late Romantic composers wrote the end of the musical and cultural achievements of the Romantic period, and at the same time prepared for the emergence of a new period of music. Various modernist musical schools emerged in the West, the most influential being the impressionism of Debussy, the neo-classicism of Stravinsky and Hindemith, and the expressionism of the New Viennese School represented by Schoenberg, which created a complex situation for the world's symphonic music compositions. Soviet composers Prokofiev, Shostakovich's creation of unique, France's Ravel, Miyo, Poulenc, Messiaen, Spain's de Faya, Britain's Britten, Hungary's Bartok, Austria's Webern, Denmark's Carl Nielsen, the United States of America's Ives, Copland, and other people's symphonic music creations are also quite influential.