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However, a new poetic, metaphysical element enters. Music gains religious traits with the intention to pull in and overpower the listener, and is regarded as a force with extrasensory powers combined with subjective inwardness. Interest in mysticism, mythology, the exotic and miraculous, adventure, privation, misfortune and the inevitable grows. The depths of the soul are explored poetically-artistically, later also scientifically. A completely new relation to nature develops, the sublime and an overpowering, strong beauty and power are sensed. The artist tries to find an expression for these sentiments and the genius of nature.
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