To study the style of a piece, a good way is, to track back to the period when the piece was composed. Familiarizing the composition style and performance style of that era helps understand the characteristics of that period. And pPapillons incubated during the early nineteenth- century, Sso it is necessary to have a brief stylistic study of nineteenth-century Romanticism.

Papillons wasere composed during 1828-1831, which was the early stage of the romantic period. This period not only inherited the music style of the classical period but also innovated the composition form. Many of the characteristics of romantic music havwere formed during the earlyier period of the nineteenth century.

Like the main idea of music romanticism – dramatic contrasts of dynamics, the tempo, and the rhythm during the Romantic period was more liberal and less rigorous. The form and design was much freer, much more individually distinctive and more expressive. Almost each composer hasd his/her own inimitable style. Music during the nineteenth century always had a dramatic contrast of dynamics and pitch, and great technical virtuosity. The structure was taken in to go through use of repeated themes. Composers always taooke inspiration from the literature; Tthe literature inspiration and individual encouragement directly affected the popularization of programmatic music., Bbecause the programmatic music canould express the thinking of composers, giving composers and audiences a way to communicate. LikeAs Liszt defined that: “any preface in intelligible language added to a piece of instrumental music, by means of which the composer intends to guard the listener against a wrong poetical interpretation”.

On the playing way, like the early nineteenth century's composition style, performers payid more attention to emotional expression than the classical music period,; the romantic composition style promotes the performers to have a great technical ability. The appearance of variety technical variety was also because of the development of the piano manufacturing technology. Piano, has become the “utility” instrument since the nineteenth century, itand has remained as the veil of the pervasive continueing instrument ofor the past two centuries, and can accompany a good deal of music or perform with any other instruments. The piano has been used for “trying things out”, or “showing how a piece goes”.
The playing speed was faster, and the dynamics were more contrastiveng G- great passion oin expression represents an expansive variety of emotions. The developimengt in expression and volume wereas abrupt and extreme. Many performers studied the playing method, especially the cantabile legato and the short powerful leap. The gorgeous of the sound and the timbre reached a higher level. Using the pedal, became important in the early romantic period, the performer, according to the needs of the music style to, used the pedal and enhanced the character of the music.