On The Strings of My Soul

Young Poland in music: The composers of "Young Poland" rebelled against positivism, not trusting the belief that reason would explain and help solve the problems of man at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Various phenomena tumbled in the cultural melting pot, lined with the philosophical concept of Friedrich Nietzsche, with his ideas of Apollonian and Dionysian beauty, or fed by the pessimistic thought of Arthur Schopenhauer. Creators of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries sought a new kind of expression - also in the song genre, which became representative still of the Romantic era, with it's idea of feeling and believing. After all, in song, as in a drop of water, it is possible to express the universe of human emotions - both from the perspective of "I" (Ich-Lieder) and "YOU" (Du-Lieder), as one of the researchers of lyric, Mieczyslaw Tomaszewski, wrote about in his book From Confession to Crying. Studies on Romantic Song (Academy of Music in Krakow