Music and Literature in German Romanticism

by Siobhán Donovan

The interrelationship between music and literature reached its zenith during the Romantic era, and nowhere was this relationship more pronounced than in Germany. Many representatives of literary and philosophical German Romanticism held music to be the highest and most expressive, quintessentially Romantic art form, able to convey what cannot be expressed in words: the ineffable and metaphysical. The influence was reciprocal, with literature providing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571132589
• ISBN13: 9781571132581
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"