Sturm und Drang was a proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music that occurred between the late 1760s and early 1780s. Within the movement, individual subjectivity and, in particular, extremes of … See more

Characteristics
The protagonist in a typical Sturm und Drang stage work, poem, or novel is driven to action—often violent action—not by pursuit of noble … See more

The parallel movement in the visual arts can be witnessed in paintings of storms and shipwrecks showing the terror and irrational destruction wrought by nature. These pre- See more

The Sturm und Drang movement did not last long; according to Betty Waterhouse it began in 1771 and ended in 1778 (Waterhouse v). The rise of the middle class in the 18th … See more

Counter-Enlightenment
French neoclassicism (including French neoclassical theatre), a movement beginning in the early Baroque, with its emphasis on the See more

The Classical period music (1750–1800) associated with Sturm und Drang is predominantly written in a minor key to convey difficult or depressing sentiments. The principal themes tend to be angular, with large leaps and unpredictable melodic contours. See more

• Antihero
• Jena Romanticism
• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing—his opinions influenced the theatre practitioners who began the movement of Sturm und Drang See more