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Wolfgang Rihm, a Chiffre
2017 || Paperback || Yves Knockaert || Universitaire Pers Leuven
The elusive and ungraspable in Rihms's music.
Wolfgang Rihm ( b. Karlsruhe, 1952) is the most performed living German composer. With his personal, expressive, and versatile music, he became the most prominent representative of his generation. His individual approach to music was established in the 1980s and he continues to explore and enlarge his original concepts today. His 1980s work is at the core of this book, more specifically his instrumental music: the Chiffre cycle and the string quar...
Recognizing Music as an Art Form
Friedrich Th. Vischer and German music criticism, 1848-1887
2016 || Hardcover || Barbara Titus || Universitaire Pers Leuven
The impact of Hegelian philosophy on 19th-century music criticism.
Music's status as an art form was distrusted in the context of German idealist philosophy which exerted an unparalleled influence on the entire nineteenth century. Hegel insisted that the content of a work of art should be grasped in concepts in order to establish its spiritual substantiality (Geistigkeit), and that no object, word or image could accurately represent the content and meaning of a musical work. In the mid-ninete...