Bach’s finest moments produce an auditory ecstasy, and the feeling that no one else has ever been able to extract such sounds from the instrument that stands out in the composition. The same is true of the harpsichord, the viola, the violin, the flute… when we think of the ensemble as a whole, Bach seems to be the composer who mastered everything and explored everything with incomparable skill. Beethoven’s finest moments, however, produce something different, and there are perhaps no words to describe the miracle that characterizes his compositions. A deaf man, yet one who produces in the listener, through auditory stimulation, a paralyzing shiver from head to toe.
Tag: music
Cinema, Music, and Theater, Compared…
Cinema, music, and theater, compared to the visual arts and literature, have the disadvantage of being contaminated by operators who consider themselves artists, but are not. This gives rise to a series of consequences that can only frustrate he who gave birth to the creation. It must be distressing for a composer to realize that it is possible to make a career as a virtuoso performing the works of others, and to be confronted with the scenario stripped of the facilities that the first option offers, if he chooses to concentrate on his own compositions. Even more distressing must be witnessing the recognition of music workers as artists. At least, from this anguish will come the certainty that his art can only be done alone, and for free. From now on, he will never confuse true with false motivation.
It Is Interesting How a Combination…
It is interesting how a combination of multiple factors, such as modern music itself, the astonishing ease of access and, at the same time, the rarity of chance encounters and natural guides, has made it extremely difficult to orientate oneself in the great works of music. To reasonably know a prolific composer such as Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, or Brahms, it is not enough to have an unusual taste for classical music: it takes a conscious and focused effort to get to know them, an effort to search for a guiding light that seems hidden behind the tangle of hundreds of compositions. Carpeaux’s book, of course, solves the problem and falls like a godsend into the hands of the modern music lover. But long before thinking of reading it, most have already succumbed to disorientation.
Perhaps Mozart Was the Most Genuine and Genial Artist
Among all of them, Mozart was perhaps the most genuine and genial artist. It is absolutely impressive to see the vastness and quality of his work, and if we consider his modest three and a half decades of life… There seems to be no one who comes close to him. A work so vast, so beautiful, so touching and so powerful seems inexplicable and impossible. An artist of inexhaustible and ever-excellent manifestations: the Mozart of the sonatas captivates, the Mozart of the concerts enchants, the peerless Mozart of the Réquiem amazes. How is this? how from a single man? In Mozart’s case, having the questions more than satisfies…