Bohuslav Martinů und der intellektuelle Skeptizismus

• Authors: Gabriele Jonté

Title variants

EN

BOHUSLAV MARTINU AND INTELLECTUAL SCEPTICISM

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

Those engaged in research on Bohuslav Martinů are not uncommonly viewed with amusement by Germano-centric musicology. Here Martinů’s aesthetic of ‘Latin’ clarity and simplicity comes up against opposition that does not seem justifiable through purely rational considerations. It was Martinů’s special desire to avoid exaggerated pathos and false tragedy; rather, music was to convey joy – in the sense of his models Mozart and Dvořák. Martinů speaks of ‘poetry’ and ‘absolute beauty’ as the ‘hidden essence of art’. It can be supposed that opponents of Martinů adopt an ideology of scepticism that veils their latent but ever-present desire for ‘poetic’ music.

Keywords

EN

MARTINU BOHUSLAV; PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC OEUVRE; MUSICAL POETICS

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Hudební věda (Musicology)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 2-3
• Pages: 267-272

Contributors

author

Gabriele Jonté

• Hudební věda, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Puškinovo nám. 9, 160 00 Praha 6, Czech Republic