The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind chance. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.

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Between Lake Constance and India

With the literary fame Hesse married Maria Bernoulli (of the famous family of mathematicians) in 1904 settled down with her in Gaienhofen on Lake Constance and began a family eventually having three sons. His next novel Gertrude publiHermann Hessed in 1910 revealed a production crisis.

His best-known works include Steppenwolf Siddhartha and The Glass Bead Game each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity self-knowledge and spirituality. Hermann Hesse (German: [ˈhɛɐ̯man ˈhɛsə]; July 2 1877 – August 9 1962) was a German-Swiss poet novelist and painter.