In the 19th century the Realism Movement began, when people began to see life realistically and did not look past all the negative aspects. The realism movement had an effect on music and literature. Famous works such as The Cherry Orchard, Ghosts and Hedda Gabler were heavily influenced by realism. Musicians such as Dmitry Bortniansky, Alexander Scriabin, Dmitri Shostakovich, Vasily Alexeievich Pashkevich and Lera Auerbach of the 21st, 20th, 19th and 18th centuries were influenced by the realism movement. From the 18th to the 21st century, the Realism Movement has changed the way musicians and writers compose their works, leading people to move from thinking that life is perfect and has no negative aspects, to seeing that life is not . perfect and recognizing the negative aspects of life. Before the realism movement, another movement that happened was called the romantic period. Romanticism was a style that stimulates the imagination, emotions and creativity of a musician and literary writer ("Romanticism"). It was a time when people viewed life positively, without acknowledging any negativity. For music and literature, he had a great influence on people. John Synge was greatly influenced by romanticism when he wrote Riders To The Sea. As for musicians like Alexandr Herzen, Ivan Turgenev and other musicians, they were influenced by romanticism. Most people in the 18th century believed in romance and were religious. They would go to a priest or pray to God asking questions about life and how life came to be. In the 20th century, people began to turn away from religion and began to look to science for answers to life (“Romanticism”). Not many people would think that ... middle of paper ... is his tenure there (Anderson). He wrote twenty-four preludes on violin and piano and dedicated them to Angela Yoffe, pianist, and Vadim Gluzman, violinist (Anderson). These artists recorded the songs in 2002, some of which last less than a minute, others five and a half minutes (Anderson). Some are dark and brooding, dramatically dark and sweet (Anderson). One piece there is called T'filah, which means prayer in Hebrew. It was dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust and is a dark but beautiful piece (Anderson). Auerbach was inspired to use realism in her music by writing a piece dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust. He saw that the Holocaust really happened and did not ignore it by seeing life romantically. He saw that life is not only filled with happiness, but can have some negative aspects.