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Born August 28, 1749 • Frankfurt am Main • Germany
Died March 22, 1832 (aged 82) • Weimar • Germany
Notable Works “Alexis und Dora” • “Auf dem See” • “Clavigo” • “Der Gross-Cophta” • “Egmont” • “Faust” • “Götz von Berlichingen” • “Hermann und Dorothea” • “Iphigenie in Tauris” • “Stella” • “The Erl-King” • “The Sorrows of Young Werther” • “The Theatrical Mission of Wilhelm Meister” • “Torquato Tasso” • “Über allen Gipfeln” • “Venetian Epigrams” • “Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship”
Movement / Style Sturm und Drang

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