Robert Peters:

>It is not that the world was better in Mendelssohn's time but that the
>aesthetics of the time didn't allow to fully cover the whole dissonance of
>the world..

No aesthetic allowed it ever.  That's why the procedures of one generation
are never good for the next.  And that's why there's no "progress" in art.

>That is why Beethoven and the Romantiker are the beginning of modern art:
>they begin to break the Klassiker spell of art used for just elevating
>people.  They begin to express themselves and especially the "night side"
>of their existence

They were not the first in doing this.

Pablo Massa
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