Some Sources of Romanticism: 6 – The Lasting Effects
Isaiah Berlin
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The Value of Music
The value of music lies in following what man, she says, exhausted by a life of passion, can listen with indifference to the tunes of his tranquil youth. Even standal, who likes rossini with an almost physical passion, says about the music of beethoven that he detests these combinations. Neither reason nor indied anything else speak that o shopenas point. This is very different from bachenroder, who wrote in 17 95, music shows us all the movements of our spirit, disembodied. Or of schopenhauer, who says, the musician reveals to us the intimate essence of the world.
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