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[Highlighted & annotated extract from ‘The History of Western Music’ ‘THE CLASSICAL PERIOD’ ‘Precursors of the Classical style’ ‘The empfindsamer Stil’]

‘The German counterpart of the essentially French Rococo was the empfindsamer Stil, or “sentimental style”, which flourished in the 1750s and 1760s.... The distinguishing feature of this German reaction against Baroque profundity was its concern with emotional feeling in the music itself on the part of the performers and, hopefully, in the reaction of the audience. The French obsession with lightness and gracefulness was countered by the German determination to affect sensibilities that were often more attuned to tears than to laughter.* A late and less reserved manifestation of Empfindsamkeit was the Sturm und Drang (“storm and stress”) movement in the arts during the 1770s and 1780s.** The inclination toward the more intense personal expression of that movement was a harbinger of the coming Romantic period.

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***[Encyclopaedia Britannica 24: 557-558]

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