From: "Mathias Roesel" <[email protected]>
People didn't suddenly
change from neoclassical robots into emotional beings in 1800.
Well, if we diminish the exaggeration just a bit ... I do think that
enlightenment and the French revolution brought about quite a turnabout.
In
feudal societies, people would NOT publicly express their feelings. That
is
the gap between Haydn and Mozart on the one, and Beethoven on the other
hand.
Sorry.
Mathias
In fact a public expression of feelings through the choice of c-minor for
his Great Mass did cost Mozart his job in Salzburg.
However _private_ expression was practiced earlier, from mid17th century on.
RT
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