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"...The Romantic aesthetic emboldened composers to be more passionate, rhapsodic and personal."

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Oct 20, 2014, 2:43:39 AM10/20/14
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On Sunday, October 19, 2014 8:43:39 PM UTC-10, gggg...@gmail.com wrote:
> http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/the-top-10-composers-the-romantics/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

This recent article reports:

- ...The "growing conviction at the turn of the nineteenth century that music had the capacity to disclose the 'wonders' of the universe in ways that words could not, and that the greatest composers were in effect oracles, intermediaries between the divine and the human."

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/20/deus-ex-musica
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