Ideas and Music

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I. General Criticism: Moral and Emotional Elements in Musical Taste. The Familiar in Music. The Romantic Agony in Music. Verlaine´s Art Poétique. II. Musicians and Music: Mozart and his Age. Beethoven and the Revolutionary Ideal of Liberty. Beethoven in Human Terms. Carl Maria von Weber. Giacomo Meyerbeer. Fr. Chopin. Mendelssohn in his Letters. Wagner´s Ring as a Political Myth. Wagner as Christian Prophet or Jungian Adept. Nietzsche and Peter Gast. Scriabin and the Russian Renaissance. Sergei Prokofiev. Gounod´s Influence on French Music. III. Songs and Singers: Schumann´s Song. Claire Croiza. IV. Poets and Poetry: Music in the German Novelle. E.T.A Hoffmann. Joseph von Eichendorff. Eduard Mörike. Leopardi´s Pessimism. V. Thinkers: Schopenhauer´s Aphorisms. Scriabin´s Mystical Beliefs. Lichtenbergs Figures. Fénelon in his Spiritual Letters. Friedrich von Hügel in his Spiritual Letters. VI. Travel: Italian Reflections.