Mozart: Traces of TranscendenceSCM Press, 1992 - 81 من الصفحات For Hans Kung, as for many other people, something can sometimes appear in Mozart's music which goes beyond the human dimension and gives intimations of a bliss which transcends even all music. In this short book he sets out to identify what it is. Much, he argues, has been written about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, but relatively little about the religious dimension of his person and music. While it is completely taken for granted that Johann Sebastian Bach has Protestant roots and was a pious man, that Mozart was a Catholic and wrote music for masses is virtually ignored. So the first part of the book looks at Mozart's life and music from this perspective and asks how it contributes towards those 'traces of transcendence' which may be perceptible to those open to them. The second part sheds new light on Mozart's Coronation Mass by setting it against its contemporary cultural and political horizon and the critical confrontation with religion beginning at the ,irrie of its composition. Here is a work which is not only worthy to stand alongside Karl Barth's famous study, but which for many readers will even eclipse it. |
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... interpretation is pious wishful thinking . Moreover , these two Mozart admirers , so unlike each other , have hardly ever acknowledged each other's existence where Mozart is concerned . Only at one point does Hildesheimer quote Barth ...
... interpretation is pious wishful thinking . Moreover , these two Mozart admirers , so unlike each other , have hardly ever acknowledged each other's existence where Mozart is concerned . Only at one point does Hildesheimer quote Barth ...
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... interpreting his music and receiving it . No one has a monopoly of interpretation here , least of all the theologian , who must from the start be on guard against commandeering art for religion . Yet even musical specialists would not ...
... interpreting his music and receiving it . No one has a monopoly of interpretation here , least of all the theologian , who must from the start be on guard against commandeering art for religion . Yet even musical specialists would not ...
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... interpretation moves in a tricky area . A critic has rightly said of theological interpretation : ' Mozart could also intend something quite diabolical with it ( his music ) , a jest , a nihilism behind the appearance of tender ...
... interpretation moves in a tricky area . A critic has rightly said of theological interpretation : ' Mozart could also intend something quite diabolical with it ( his music ) , a jest , a nihilism behind the appearance of tender ...
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