Romantic symphonies

Could symphonies still be written during the Romantic period? And just how would that be done? Which is to say, what direction was history moving in? Mendelssohn and Schumann asked themselves those same questions. With their scores, they gave very different answers.

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Sinfonia n. 4 in la maggiore op. 90 “Italiana” Robert Schumann Sinfonia n. 4 in re minore op. 120