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August Nölck

August Nölck (né August Friedrich Robert Nölck; 9 January 1862 Lübeck — 12 December 1928 Dresden, Germany) was a prolific composer, virtuoso cellist, pianist, and music educator of the German School of Romanticism.

German literature

German Romanticism was the dominant movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Helene Böhlau

She showed now and then a leaning toward the Romantic school, but on the whole her high power of description is realistic and her writings are imbued with passion.

Jane Leade

Leade's spiritual and literary legacy can be found in Radical German Pietism, particularly in the Moravians under Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, in German Romanticism, and in the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, William Law and William Blake.

Sophie Mereau

Sophie Friederike Mereau (born 27 March 1770 in Altenburg; died 31 October 1806 in Heidelberg) was a writer of the German romantic school.

Heinrich von Brentano

The Brentano family, of Italian (Lombard) origin, had settled in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in the 17th century and were recognized as Hessian nobles, with close contact to important figures of the German Romanticism, including Goethe, Savigny and Arnim.

Johann Christoph Rincklake

Johann Christoph Rincklake (19 October 1764 in Harsewinkel - 19 June 1813 in Münster) was a German portrait painter of the Romantic era, with a high standing in international art history.

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Blond Eckbert

The composer wrote the English-language libretto herself, basing it on the cryptic supernatural short story Der blonde Eckbert by the German Romantic writer Ludwig Tieck.