Melissa Mcgraw - Humble and Kind (feat. Leanne Tim)

WEIMAR SCHOOL, “New German Direction”, creative. unification of it. musicians and other representatives of the arts. intelligentsia. It arose at the beginning. 50s 19 centuryin the city of Weimar (Thuringia). The head of V. sh. was F. Liszt. This also included composers P. Cornelius, J. Raff, A. Ritter, pianists X. Bülow, K. Tausig, music. critics K.F. Brendel and R. Paul, poet A.G. Hoffmann von Fullersleben et al. The emergence of W. sh. was associated with nat. the rise on the eve of the reunification of Germany, with the struggle of leading figures against backwardness and conservatism. Active creative and the conducting of Liszt, who had chosen Weimar since 1848, made this city a center of attraction for many. advanced him. figures. Since 1852, the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Music Magazine, founded in 1834 in Leipzig by R. Schumann) passed into the hands of Liszt supporters and propagated their ideas. In 1854, at the initiative of Liszt and Fullersleben, an association of advanced Weimar intelligentsia was created in Weimar, called the “New Weimar School”.The anniversary of the magazine "Neue Zeitschrift für Musik" in 1859 served as the occasion for the organization of Universal German.