The interest of romanticist composers to incarnation of memory world in the music opus is regarded from the position of peculiarities of world view and aesthetic views of the epoch. Memory is analyzed in the context of the most important notions and categories for romantic aesthetics. There is covered the issue of difference in composers’ approaches to musical and artistic rendering of memory at different stages of romanticism development.

There is considered the influence of psychological conceptions of memory on the ideas of N.K. Metner. The Sonata-Memory is analyzed from the point of view of realization of the idea of depicting the peculiarities of remembering process by the means of music language