Nocna rozmowa – nokturn w muzyce, literaturze i malarstwie romantyzmu
Night-Time Conversations: The Nocturne in Romantic Music, Literature and Painting

Summary/Abstract: Tracing the nocturne from its beginnings up to the Romantic period presents a rewarding challenge, as does the task of analysing scholars’ opinions, of interpreting works of literature, visual art and music, and of comparing and classifying examples, types and phenomena. These activities reveal how the nocturne developed in these individual fields. This article suggests that even though the nocturne has distinct histories in painting, literature and music, these fields intersect and inspire each other. This allows us to trace the historical transformation of world-views and the formation of distinct epochs – Romanticism in particular. With its fascination with the night and the sombre side of life, this epoch inaugurated the nocturne, its characteristics, poetics, composition, iconography and its means of expression in the different domains of art. The nocturne is a thoroughly Romantic creation, with the epoch’s emotionality, ideas and imagination being reflected in its different embodiments.

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