Sturm und Drang Salon

A new artistic impulse that emphasized extreme emotions and sublime moments emerged around 1770 that is prominently exhibited in the instrumental works of C. P. E. Bach and Joseph Haydn, and became the defining aesthetic of the German dramatic and poetic “Sturm und Drang” (“Storm and Stress”) movement, exemplified by the early writings of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The Hillsdale 18th-Century Chamber Orchestra’s second salon of the semester featu...