Handel und Shakespeare, zur Asthetik der Tonkunst
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Handel und Shakespeare, zur Asthetik der Tonkunst (1868) is a book by Georg Gottfried Gervinus, in which the author drew an ingenious parallel between his favorite poet and his favorite composer, showing that their intellectual affinity was based on the Teutonic origin common to both, on their analogous intellectual development and character. The ill-success of this publication, and the indifference with which the latter volumes of his History of the 19th Century were received by his countrymen, together with the feeling of disappointment that the unity of Germany had been brought about in another fashion and by other means than he wished to see employed, embittered his later years. He died at Heidelberg on 18 March 1871.
