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What is Sturm und Drang?

What is Sturm und Drang? Here are some definitions.

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  1. A proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music which occurred from the late 1760s to the early 1780s, emphasizing individual subjectivity and the free expression of emotions.
  2. Turmoil; a period of emotional intensity and anxiety.
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The big news is that for all the Sturm und Drang, we may be seeing the emergence of a remarkable expert consensus.
The 1780s saw the emergence of the Sturm und Drang movement, which attempted to overturn the ethos of the German Enlightenment.
The more familiar String Quartet also opens with a healthy dose of Sturm und Drang.
It's there like the sets in an opera, a backdrop for acting out Oedipal fantasies and all sorts of Sturm und Drang.
You get that early romanticism of Goethe, the Sturm und Drang giving way to something a bit more restrained.
This is Romanticism's full flowering, minus the Sturm und Drang, and minus the ingenuity of an Edvard Grieg, for example.

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