Das Andere der Aufklärung. Zur Kompositionsästhetik von Mozarts Glasharmonika-Quintett KV 617
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Titel: | Das Andere der Aufklärung. Zur Kompositionsästhetik von Mozarts Glasharmonika-Quintett KV 617 |
Medientyp: | Buch, Text |
veröffentlicht: |
Franz Steiner Verlag
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Umfang: | 279-302 |
Zusammenfassung: | <p>The late eighteenth century's "enlightened" culture had difficulties in assessing the art form of music as "merely speaking to the senses" (Immanuel Kant). Attempts to delineate the physical, psychological, and aesthetic foundations of music by means of a strict orientation to reason were countered by a general fascination with music as an immediate language of feeling. This discrepancy is pointedly manifest in aesthetic issues surrounding compositions for glass harmonica, an instrument singularly in vogue during the last third of the century. The quintet Mozart composed for it (KV 617) presents itself as a particularly suitable vehicle to examine musicology's contradictory evaluations of Mozart's relationship to musical "enlightenment." Analytical findings reveal why Mozart cannot be considered a strict advocate or, equally, an opponent of "enlightened" thought; likewise, his handling of the instrument's sound indicates that he sought neither "sentimental" immediacy nor "sublime" ascension into the "classical" discourse of motivic and thematic logic. Thus, Mozart's art does not deem "the other part of reason" (das Andere der Vernunft) as a distant object with regard to his musical thought as such, but rather regards it as something that is subtly encoded in it.</p> |
ISSN: |
0003-9292
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Datensammlung: | sid-55-col-jstormusic sid-55-col-jstoras3 JSTOR Music Archive JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Archive |