The term Empfindsamkeit (meaning ‘sensitivity’) is associated with a particular aesthetic outlook prevalent in north Germany in the mid-eighteenth century. It refers to an intimate, melancholic expression, the ideals of which are found in the music and writings of C. P. E. Bach. His style is often rhetorical, with sudden pauses and changes of key, and expressive ...
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was an able dramatist but his gifts were not on the scale of Gluck’s and the marriage of Italian music and French forms was always ill-conceived. Arts & Culture | Empfindsamkeit | Classical Era | Classical ...
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