Sources

  1. Musical Entertainment at the Spinet (c. 1670)

  2. The Adventurous Simplicissimus, Frontispiece of the First Edition (1669)

  3. Theater Backdrop for a Hamburg Festival in Honor of Frederick III (1701)

  4. Interior of Church at the Benedictine Monastery in Melk (built 1702-36)

  5. A Performance at the Old Dresden Opera House at the “Zwinger” (1719)

  6. Johann Sebastian Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier (1722)

  7. Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata “Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt” (1725)

  8. Georg Phillip Telemann, Pimpione (first performed 1725)

  9. Georg Friedrich Händel (1734)

  10. Christiana Mariana von Ziegler, Das männliche Geschlechte, im Namen einiger Frauenzimmer besungen (1739)

  11. Evening Music at a Hamburg Musical College (c. 1740)

  12. Georg Friedrich Händel, Messiah (1741)

  13. Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 (1742)

  14. Frederick II of Prussia, Sonata in C minor for Flute and Harpsichord (1747)

  15. View of Dresden from the Right Bank of the Elbe (1748)

  16. Georg Phillip Telemann, Concerto for Recorder and Bassoon, TWV 52:F1 (1750)

  17. Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1768)

  18. Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 48 (c.1769)

  19. Self-portrait of Maria Antonia of Saxony (1772)

  20. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Excerpts from The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)

  21. Goethe in His Frankfurt Study, Self-Portrait (1770-73)

  22. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1777)

  23. Angelica Kauffmann (before 1781)

  24. Friedrich Schiller, Die Räuber (1781)

  25. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony No. 36 in C major (1783)

  26. Tea Party Hosted by Duchess Anna Amalia in Wittums Palace in Weimar (1783)

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  28. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Campagna, Italy (1786-87)

  29. The Vienna Freemasons Lodge (1790)

  30. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Magic Flute (1791)

  31. Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments (1798)

  32. August Wilhelm Schlegel (c. 1790)

  33. Joseph Haydn, Kaiserhymne (1796/97)

  34. Joseph Haydn (1792)

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  36. Karoline von Günderrode, Der Dom zu Cölln (c. 1802, first published 1899)

  37. Friedrich Hölderlin, Andenken (1803)

  38. Friedrich Hölderlin (1792)

  39. Achim von Arnim (1804)

  40. Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, “Eroica” (1803-1804)

  41. Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 (1804-1808)

  42. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Excerpts from Faust (1808)

  43. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (1772-1775)

  44. “Faust Conjures up the Spirits” (c. 1840)

  45. Goethe with Johann August Friedrich John (1831)

  46. August Wilhelm Schlegel, Excerpt from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature (1808)

  47. Heinrich von Kleist, Anekdote aus dem letzten preußischen Kriege (1810)

  48. Germaine de Stäel (1813)

  49. Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Design for a Monument to Arminius (c. 1814)

  50. Ludwig van Beethoven (c. 1820)

  51. The Age of Enlightenment

  52. Weimar Classicism

  53. The Romantic Era in Literature