Music

By the beginning of the nineteenth century, Romanticism was prevalent throughout European culture.  Individual expression was paramount, no matter what the consequences for reason, good taste and at times even sanity. The consequence was a plethora of highly-charged, emotive works in literature and, particularly, art and music. Robert Schumann was the archetypical Romantic composer: his counterparts in painting included Caspar...

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