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  1. E. T. A. Hoffmann. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist.

  2. E.T.A. Hoffmann (born January 24, 1776, Königsberg, Prussia [now Kaliningrad, Russia]—died June 25, 1822, Berlin, Germany) was a German writer, composer, and painter known for his stories in which supernatural and sinister characters move in and out of men’s lives, ironically revealing tragic or grotesque sides of human nature.

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  3. Romanticism. Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (January 24, 1776 – June 25, 1822), better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann, was a Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. Hoffmann was one of the key authors of the later the Romantic movement and a transitional figure.

  4. Nov 18, 2023 · Two newly translated collections capture the brilliance of E.T.A. Hoffmann, whose influence ranges from Freud to Poe to ‘Blade Runner’. Review by Justin Taylor. November 18, 2023 at 8:00...

  5. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. His stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach 's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero.

  6. E. T. A. Hoffmann (für Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, eigentlich Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; * 24. Januar 1776 in Königsberg, Ostpreußen; † 25. Juni 1822 in Berlin) war ein bedeutender deutscher Schriftsteller der Romantik. Außerdem wirkte er als Jurist, Komponist, Kapellmeister, Musikkritiker, Zeichner und Karikaturist .

  7. Jan 1, 2010 · How did Hoffmann, a music critic and writer, classify Beethoven as a romantic composer in his review of the Fifth Symphony in 1810? He argued that music is the most romantic of all arts and that instrumental music is the purest form of music, influenced by Kant's philosophy and his own imagination.

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