Tag: E. T. A. Hoffmann
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The sole purpose of art is infinite
E. T. A. Hoffmann wrote in 1813 that instrumental music is the most romantic of all the arts – one might almost say, the only genuinely romantic one – for its sole subject is the infinite. The lyre of Orpheus opened the portals of Orcus – music discloses to man an unknown realm, a world…