Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (aug 1, 1749 – aug 1, 1832)

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Poet, playwright, philosopher, and natural scientist, all in one. Goethe blieved that artistic form should imitate the forms of nature, first among which was the "primal plant," nature's microcosm, all of whose parts were symbiotic. Romantics latched onto this idea, as is eloquently expressed in the English poet William Blake's "Auguries of Innocence": "To see a world in a grain of sand/ And a heaven in a wild flower." In many of Beethoven's compositions, this translated into new concepts of formfounded as much on thematic relationships as they are on tonal ones, and nowhere more so than in the famous Fifth.

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