The meeting of the "Workshop of the Professional Viewer" club will explore romantic madness through the music of the 19th century and the texts of Hoffmann. Listeners will trace how European thought moved from rationality to dark foundations, where sound, imagination, and anxiety became the language of art, inner freedom, and nocturnal imagination. Romanticism began where sober order ceased to seem sufficient. European culture of the 18th and 19th centuries increasingly turned to the night side of consciousness: fear, dreams, obsession, inexplicable attraction, and liminal states. The meeting will discuss how this turn manifested in music-the art that romantics considered the closest to mystery, inner movement, and unspoken feeling. The starting point will be the thought of Dutch historian Johan Huizinga about the great turn of minds from the rational to the gloomy foundations of existence. This transition helps to understand why the 19th century listened to music so attentively: it was seen not as an ornament of life, but as a path to what cannot be fully explained in words. At the center of the discussion are the artistic-analytical texts of Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. The poster for St. Petersburg is available on KUDAGO.