feb 1, 1757 - On the Sublime and the Beautiful

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Mom's violin!

by Edmund Burke, helped set the stage for the Romantic era. In this essay, Burke contrasts the beautiful, which is designed to create pleasure, and the sublime, which summons terror and a sense of danger. For many Romantic composers, the search for the sublime over the beautiful was a characteristic theme of their lives and work.

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