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  1. Jan 1, 2010 · In July of 1809, E. T. A. Hoffmann received a copy of the score to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Earlier that year he had begun publishing in what at the time was the most respected journal for music criticism in the German-speaking world, the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (AMZ): first his story Ritter Gluck (in January) and a review of two symphonies by a now-forgotten composer, Friedrich ...

  2. Jun 2, 2014 · Here are some interesting thoughts on Beethoven's music and his fifth symphony, by the extremely influential music critic of the 18th and 19th century, E.T.A. Hoffmann, I'll just transcribe it verbatim, as follows: "When music is discussed as an independent art, should it not be solely instrumental music that is intended, music that scorns ...

  3. Arthur Ware Locke, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Beethoven's Instrumental Music: Translated from E. T. A. Hoffmann's "Kreisleriana" with an Introductory Note, The Musical ...

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  5. Works by or about E. T. A. Hoffmann at Internet Archive; Works by E. T. A. Hoffmann at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Hoffmann's Life and Opinions of the Tom Cat Murr; Free scores by E. T. A. Hoffmann in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki) Compositions of E. T. A. Hoffmann in the digital collection of the Bamberg State Library; E ...

  6. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was a German Romantic author, known especially for his fantasy and Gothic horror. His novella, The Nutcracker and the Mouseking, was the basis of the ballet The Nutcracker. Hoffman was also a music critic, and his essay on Beethoven’s instrumental music particularly explored the latter’s Fifth Symphony and his ...

  7. E.T.A. Hoffmann, the great early-romantic German poet, author, and philosopher, profoundly influenced the ways about which people perceived Beethoven’s music. Hoffmann, influenced by other philosophers such as Edmund Burke, Friedrich Schiller, and Jean Paul Richter, interpreted Beethoven’s music as an expression of the sublime.

  8. Jan 1, 2009 · Abstract. In July 1809, E. T. A. Hoffmann received a copy of the score to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and in July 1810, he published a review of the Fifth Symphony in the German journal for music ...