Sturm und Drang

storm and stress sturm unt drahng [German, storm and stress] A style of composition that communicates emotions of stress, fear, horror, anxiety, etc. Used mostly in German music of the Romantic era.

The Classical period music (1750–1800) associated with Sturm und Drang is predominantly written in a minor key to convey difficult or depressing sentiments. The principal themes tend to be angular, with large leaps and unpredictable melodic contours.

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Sturm und Drang was a proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music that occurred between the late 1760s and early 1780s.

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Characteristics. The protagonist in a typical Sturm und Drang stage work, poem, or novel is driven to action not by pursuit of noble goals, but by baser motives, such as revenge and greed. Further, this action is often one of violence.

(For two excellent examples of Sturm und Drang in music, listen to the opening bars of Mozart's Piano Concerto in D Minor or the overture to his opera Don Giovanni.)

Friedrich Maximilian Klinger Sturm und Drang (1776) by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger is a play about the Revolutionary War in America. The play lent its name to the artistic movement of Sturm und Drang. Götz von Berlichingen (1773) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is a play about an adventurous poet-knight.

Drang nach Osten, (German: “Drive to the East”), German policy or disposition to colonize the Slavic lands east of Germany.

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