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Absolute music
Absolute music
(sometimes
abstract music
) is music that is not explicitly "about" anything; in contrast to
program music
, it is non-
representational
. The idea of absolute music developed at the end of the 18th century in the writings of authors of early
German Romanticism
, such as
Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder
,
Ludwig Tieck
and
E. T. A. Hoffmann
but the term was not coined until 1846 where it was first used by
Richard Wagner
in a programme to
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
.
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