Music, Romanticism & the Sublime
The Romantic Imagination 3
Sometime between the 1780s and the 1820s something changed forever in European culture and nowhere was this more apparent than in music. It was now possible to imagine that music itself could express ideas, and help people understand-or at least experience-something of the world around them. In this series, Michael Lee explores the changing world of music in the Romantic Era and its transcendent ideal: the sublime. Whether recreating the noise of revolution, challenging performers to new heights of virtuosity, or exploring the inner world of the imagination, music would never be the same again.
In the final programme: Music as personal disclosure, entering the private world, Robert Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert.
Presenter: Michael Lee
(First broadcast – 7th October 2018)
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 20th July, 6pm-7pm
