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Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Explorations of a Fundamental Ethical Discourse (Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 6) by Albrecht Classen (editor), Marilyn Sandidge (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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## Friendship-The Quest for a Human Ideal and Value From Antiquity to the Early Modern Time A. Early Modern Perspectives Let us begin with an intriguing and most powerful example of friendship as it was discussed and glorified in an eighteenth century text. The famous German classicist writer, dramatist, historian, and poet Friedrich Schiller (1759-1806) is today perhaps best known for his glorious ode "An die Freude" (Ode to Joy), composed in 1785. It has become in the meantime the European hymn, adopted by the European Union and the Council of Europe as their anthem in 1972, drawing from Ludwig van Beethoven's musical adaptation in the final, or fourth, movement of his Ninth Symphony from 1824. Many other contemporary composers felt similarly inspired by Schiller's poem and set his words to music as well, such as Johann Gottlieb Naumann (1786), Christian Gottfried Körner (1786), Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1796), Johann Friedrich Hugo von Dalberg (1799), Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (1803). Perhaps better known are Franz Schubert with his song "An die Freude" D 189 (1815), for voice and piano; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1865) with his composition for solo singers, choir and orchestra in
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- Author
- Albrecht Classen (editor), Marilyn Sandidge (editor)
- Publisher
- de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786613166685
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction
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