Herman Vogt's work extends a line of artistic thinking established in the Romantic period. His music presents an emotional but formally disciplined response to the central questions of existence, grappling with the very problem of the place of the individual in the world that occupied the likes of Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann and Gustav Mahler. Much of Vogt's music follows the established rubric of Classical Romanticism but dresses it in a modern but often tonal sound, both sensitive and stringent. His music's duality echoes fundamental philosophical dilemmas that have always remained with us, pitting the veiled and vague against the distinct and clear.