Central to art was once its relationship the imaginative interior of artist. The legacy romanticism and sublime has been systematically eroded throughout 20th 21st centuries. ...

Wolfgang Rihm’s Fifth String Quartet poses numerous challenges to analysis because it contains little repeated material, no clear formal design, and a wealth of diverse musical gestures. I argue that the piece’s gestures should be understood in relation an idealized Austro-German romantic music, common much work from 1970s, but which fails materialize Quartet. trace closeness romanticism demons...