Del Minnesänger al artista romántico. El romanticismo de Ludwig Tieck a través de la figura del "músico" y su representación literaria.

Abstract

The aim of this study is to state a development of the figure of the musician in Ludwig Tiecks literary work and to show that this evolution and the value awarded to music can be representative of the continuous changing process of German Romanticism. This study is justified by the new status that music acquires in this period due to a deep change in the philosophic and aesthetic system - the mimetic aesthetic is substituted by an expressive one that provokes a change not only in the value awarded to the different arts, but also in the relation between them: music displaces poetry and painting and reaches the peak of the pyramid of the arts. Therefore music and the figure of the musician enter literature, representing now the idea of absolute music generated in the epicentre of romantic aesthetics. The arts in the Romanticism rebel against a world that does not represent them anymore. Through art the romantics could counterbalance reality and create another world. To build this new world, drawn by their infinite nostalgia they looked back and idealized their own history, the German Middle Ages, which for authors like Ludwig Tieck became the Golden Age, and in the figure of the Minnesänger he found the ideal of the romantic artist. Once established the relation between music and the Middle Ages as representative of the same nostalgia, we analyse the figure of the musician in Tiecks work in any of its representations and try to show through its development Tiecks own first approach to music and the Middle Ages, his immersion in both worlds, as well as his ulterior relinquishment and his definite approaching to reality.