The Romantic movement was an artistic, literary, and philosophical movement that began in Europe in the second half of the 18th century and grew in response to the Industrial Revolution (Encyclopaedia Britannica, n.d.). Music is a vital part of this movement which expressed itself in many different forms: poetry, literature, painting, and sculpture. Romantic music originates from France but it is not known when someone first started using words like "romantic" and "romance" to describe what we would now call music. It may have been before they were officially adopted into the language in the late 18th century. However, these terms were very commonly used to describe anything related to love prior to this time so they are likely to have been in use for some time before that. Music has always been important in France, and throughout the centuries many great artists have come from here. It is believed that French musicians helped inspire the work of Mozart and Beethoven, for example. In the early years of the French Revolution (1789-1799), however, many traditions were abandoned because they were seen as links with the past rather than contributors to the future. This also included music, so from about 1790 there were no more court composers working in France. Instead, new music was produced by amateur performers who played according to the latest Italian models.