The article is devoted to the consideration of auditoryvisual synesthesia in programmatic romantic music. The appeal to the musical art of the Romantic era from the point of view of synesthesia is relevant and significant in connection with the interpretation of its deep meanings, the comprehension of the peculiarities of its perception, and the understanding of the specifics of the creative process of Romantic composers. The study is based on a comprehensive approach that combines the aspects of holistic and synesthetic methods, as well as the method of theoretical generalization and comparison. As shown in the article, at the phonological level, auditory­visual synesthesias in the program music of Romantic composers, being the expressors of the fi urative principle, simultaneously form the deep meanings of the musical text; at the intonational­dramaturgical and compositional level, they determine the nature of the interaction between such interdisciplinary aesthetic features as musicality, pictoriality, theatricality, poeticism, and poem­like qualities, which determine the features of the musical form and the logic of its intonational­semantic development.