The Poet's Loves

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Love is probably the great driving force of German Romanticism. Turn by turn a source of creative impulse, happiness, nostalgia or suffering, it irrigates music as much as poetry. Composers then find a privileged language to express the most intimate emotions, creating a musical space, the lied, where voice and piano bring to life the ardor of the heart. Love here is not only a poetic subject, but an inner experience that transforms the individual. It becomes the mirror of the aspirations, fragilities and contradictions of the human soul. Author, …