Aesthetics of music - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics_of_musicIn the 19th century, the era of romanticism in music, some composers and critics argued that music should and could express ideas, images, emotions, or even a whole literary plot. Challenging Kant's reservations about instrumental music, in 1813 E. T. A. Hoffmann argued that music was fundamentally the art of instrumental composition. Five years later, Arthur Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representationargued that instrumental music is the grea…