Love is in the air!

While the topics of love and romance are much less prevalent in classical music than they are in pop songs, the subject has not escaped the attention of any epoch, dating as far back as the Middle Ages (the courtly love of the trouvères, troubadours, and Minnesingers). More and more attention is paid to it from the end of the Renaissance on, but it is obviously only in the Romantic era that this primary human sentiment becomes inseparable from music. There is no shortage of recordings to illustrate the point.