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C.
P. E.Bach, Haydn, and the art of mixed feelings:
‘Empfindsamkeit’ and ‘wit’ in
the keyboard works
The concept of ‘Empfindsamkeit’
in
music has been insufficiently defined. An attempt to establish the
scope of the musical Empfindsamkeit
has to take into account the moral-emotional aspects of the
international movement of ‘sensibility’. Moses Mendelssohn’s concept of
‘vermischte
Empfindungen’, which he developed around the central
empfindsam
concept of ‘pity’, articulates an awareness of greater
complexity of emotional states in aesthetic context. Such complexity is
expressed in some of the keyboard works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
and of Joseph Haydn.
The works of Laurence Sterne, often associated
with
Haydn, are paradigmatic for the emotional-aesthetic complexity of the Empfindsamkeit.
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