zurück 31.12.1920, Freitag ID: 192012315

Artikel, in dem Bruckner erwähnt wird, in The Victoria Daily Times Nr. 156 (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) auf S. 21:
"           The Music of Yesterday
               By James Gibbons Huneker.
     Notwithstanding the fact that he played the flute and ranked Rossini above Wagner, Arthur Schopenhauer said some notable things about music. [... über Fortschritt und Entwicklung in der Musik ...].
     The Wagner-Liszt tradition of music-drama and the symphonic poem have been continued with personal modifications by Richard Strauss. Max Reger pinned his faith to Brahms and absolute music, though not without an individual variation. [... über Reger ... Schönberg und andere (von Reznicek, Braunfels, Pfitzner bis Schreker u.a.) ...] and the younger choir whose doings are analyzed weekly by clever Cezar Searchinger in the pages of the Muical [sic] Courier. Their name is legion. They enter the lists sounding golden trumpets of self-praise and are usually forgotten after a solitary performance of their huge machines, whether opera or symphony. Size seems to be the prime requisite. Write a music-drama that consumes three nights in its performance, a symphony that takes a hundred men, with a chorus of a thousend, to play and sing. Behold! You are a modern among moderns. But your name is as mud the following year. Exceptions are Mahler and Bruckner, yet I have my suspicions that when the zeal of William Mengelberg has abated, then the Mahler craze will go the way of all felsh, despite the fact that he has composed some thrilling pages. Otherwise, his symphonic structures are too mastodonic to endure; like those of Berlioz [...].
     Our personal preferences incline us to the new French music.[... kein "Jumboism in music" ... Richard Strauss ...] An epigone? Yes. But an epigone of individual genius.   *   *   *     With Armold Schoenberg freedom in modulation is not only permissible but an iron rule; [... Zitat aus der "Harmonielehre" ...]. The absence of rule in Schoenberg is an inflexible, cast-iron law of necessity as tyrannical as the Socialism that has replaced Czarism with a more oppressive autocrazy, the rule of the unwashed, many headed monster. Better one tyrant than a million. There is no music of yesterday or to-morrow. There is only the music of Now."


Zitierhinweis:

Franz Scheder, Anton Bruckner Chronologie Datenbank, Eintrag Nr.: 192012315, URL: www.bruckner-online.at/ABCD-192012315
letzte Änderung: Apr 21, 2023, 10:10