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Other transitional composers into romanticism included Franz Schubert and Ludwig van Beethoven. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) ranked music as lowest in his hierarchy of the humanities. What he distrusted most about music was its wordlessness; he considered it helpful for enjoyment however negligible in the service of culture. But the makes use of he envisioned for music, despite his improvements, have been within the mainstream of tradition; Luther insisted that music should be simple, direct, accessible, an aid to piety. The Anne Hathaway Library subsequent door, a duplicate of the cottage during which Shakespeare’s wife lived, houses shows of special curiosity…