TNTL 116/3

L. Custers

 'De rampzalige artikels in de N.G.' Alphons Diepenbrock en de Nieuwe Gids

Abstract - During the years 1891-1893, the Dutch composer Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) contributed a number of essays to the Nieuwe Gids. By then, the editors of this periodical, started in 1885 as the mouthpiece of a group of young poets, writers and painters now known as the 'Tachtigers', had lost much of their unanimity; they had started to quarrel about artistic and social views. Diepenbrock took advantage of this situation by drawing attention to his particular ideas, not only on music (a subject neglected by the 'Tachtigers') but on literature and art in general as well, ideas that often deviated strongly from those published earlier in the Nieuwe Gids.

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