S1E9: The Pursuit of Happiness

20 Apr 196950 minTV-G

Kenneth Clark reflects on the 18th-century music of Bach, Handel, Haydn, and Mozart, with their complex, innovative structures. These qualities are reflected in the best rococo architecture, the pilgrimage churches, and palaces of Bavaria. While French classicism reflected the imposition of grandeur via the state, rococo was driven by an entirely new idea: the pure pursuit of happiness.