Brahms and Bruckner as Artistic Antipodes - Floros Constantin
Brahms and Bruckner as Artistic Antipodes - Floros Constantin In the last third of the 19th century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Both wrote autonomously conceived music, both held…
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Brahms and Bruckner as Artistic Antipodes - Floros Constantin
In the last third of the 19th century Brahms and Bruckner were regarded as antipodes. Both wrote autonomously conceived music, both held on to traditional forms, and both rejected program music. Is this perception really true to the historical reality or had their contemporaries overestimated the dimension of their distance , as argued later?
At the center of the second part, whose subject is Brahms' early work, is the question whether Brahms was indeed an autonomously working composer. To find an answer to this question, part I tries to elucidate Brahms' relation to Bruckner in its biographic, historical, artistic and art-theoretical aspects. The topic of the third part is a taboo of Bruckner research: Bruckner's relation to program music.The second and third part of the study achieve new insights.
With a consistent analysis of biographic data and, simultaneously, a careful
Music as Message - Floros Constantin