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THE SOUTH Bank is celebrating German Romanticism - Deutsche
Romantik as the posters have it - with a concert series that began
on Thursday, runs to mid-November, and raises more questions than
it is likely to answer. Starting with the South Bank's idea of who
counts as Romantic.
This is no easy matter. Many a supposedly Romantic composer
would have thrown up his hands in horror at the label. Mahler, for
example, cited with approval Goethe's dictum that Romantic art was
sickly compared with the Hellenic health of classicism. Schumann
claimed he hadn't used the word "Romantic" 10 times in his ...
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