Storm and Stress

Sturm und Drang (German for "Storm and Stress") was a movement in German literature and music that emphasized the volatile emotional life of the individual. It is most commonly viewed as occurring in the years 1767-85, but sometimes 1769-86 or 1765-95. The name was derived from a play by Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger. The chief exponents of Sturm und Drang were the young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his friend and collaborator Friedrich von Schiller. Chief Sturm und Drang works are Goethe's play Götz von Berlichingen, his epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, and the poem "Prometheus".
After Goethe's journey to Italy, both he and Schiller effectively ended their Sturm und Drang and started a very different movement, Weimar Classicism.
The Sturm und Drang movement also had influence on music composers of the time (manifested by the preference for the minor keys), in particular the North German School Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, Ernst Wilhelm Wolff, Georg Anton Benda, Johann Gottfried Müthel, Jan Krtitel Vanhal and Carl von Dittersdorf. Notable examples of Sturm und Drang are found in the middle period symphonies of Joseph Haydn (##44, 45, 49), and the Symphony in G minor (No.25 K.183) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart).