Young Germany (Junges Deutschland) was a loose group of German writers which existed from about 1830 to 1850. It was essentially a youth movement (similar to those that had swept France, Ireland and originated in Italy). In many respects it can be seen as a literary school headed by Heinrich Heine, whose aim was to liberate politics, religion, and manners from the old conventional trammels. Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (born as Harry Heine December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was one of the most significant German poets. ...
The movement produced poets, thinkers and journalists, all of whom reacted against the introspection and particularism of Romanticism. The Romantic Movement was seen as apolitical, lacking the activism that Germany’s burgeoning intelligentsia required. As a result of the decades of compulsory school attendance in German states, mass literacy meant an excess of educated males which the establishment could not subsume. Thus in the 1830s, with the advantage of the low cost printing press, there was a rush of educated males into the so-called ‘free professions’. Jump to: navigation, search Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement in the history of ideas that originated in late 18th century Western Europe. ...
An excellent violist and da gamba player, little is known of Young's early life but he was a continental musician who served in the court of Ferdinand Karl, the then Governor of the Netherlands.
Young was also well-received and admired by the then abdicate Queen Christina of Sweden.
Young was the first Englishman to use the title of "sonata" for a collection of his works and also the term `canzona' on any of his compositions.
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