Beethoven and Goethe:

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Beethoven and Goethe are both commonly associated with the Romantic era, but their works demonstrate a range of styles and themes that resist easy categorization. This illustrates the difficulty of assigning a single definition to Romanticism. Neither of them admired Napoleon (A), nor did they seek to revolutionize the lowest orders of society (B) or emulate the French style (C). While they are both great figures of the Neoclassical Age, that is a separate period in art history that predates the Romantic era (E).