Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein enters MusicTales through the visual culture of travel, antiquity, and late 18th-century self-fashioning. The painter from Germany is best known for images around Goethe and the Italian journey, but his world also frames the social spaces of art, theatre, salon life, and cultivated listening. His tag connects visual classicism with the cultural atmosphere around the Classical period.

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  Beethoven was inspired by Goethe’s rhythmic poetry

  From 1809 to 1810, Beethoven composed the overture to Goethe’s play Egmont, depicting the life of the count of Egmont, a...