The Free Fantasia and the Musical PicturesqueCambridge University Press, 4 sty 2001 - 256 Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven were both lauded and criticised in terms borrowed from the discourse of the picturesque. This study reaffirms the centrality of the free fantasia and fantastical gesture in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century musical culture through an interdisciplinary approach that combines the visual, the literary and the musical."--Jacket. |