SPIRITUAL MUSIC BY E. T. A. HOFFMANN: DIALECTICS OF CANONICAL ASCETICISM AND ROMANTIC PERCEPTION
The article is devoted to E. T. A. Hoffmann, an outstanding music critic and composer of the early Romantic period. It examines the origins of Hoffmann’s musical education, which he received in Konigsberg. The development of musical art in Konigsberg was influenced by its history as the center of the Teutonic Order’s s...