Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff

countless different civilizations. It has been used to describe cultures and also tell about people’s individual lives. It is also an easy way to portray emotion and give the listener a look inside the artist’s mind. In the Marble Statue by Joseph von Eichendorff, music is used to show the importance of characters, show the beauty of the story and also to foreshadow future events. Fortunato’s songs throughout the Marble Statue will prove to do all of these things and have huge importance to the development

n early German influence came from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose 1774 novel The Sorrows of Young Werther had young men throughout Europe emulating its protagonist, a young artist with a very sensitive and passionate temperament. At that time Germany was a multitude of small separate states, and Goethe's works would have a seminal influence in developing a unifying sense of nationalism. Another philosophic influence came from the German idealism of Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Schelling