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Post Subject: The Furtwangler explained...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 8/11/2009
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Frankly, I do not understand your reply. Greatness did not stop with Beethoven and late Mozart but it is not the point. There is an abstract definition of greatness and there is a specific definition of interest. All that I said that despite the Bartók's Concert for Orchestra might be a “great” but I do not have any deep-vested interest in this music.
Furtwangler wrote during summer before his death in one of his letters that that many contemporary composers instead of demonstrating “what they compose” are demonstrating “how they compose”. He meant that accent of creation does not highlight a musical piece as a repository of some kind sensation that is a part of natural existence but rather the accent stress the function of creativity that is detached from the musical piece itself. Furtwangler explained that it is one of the major reasons why there is little lately great composition but there are so many composers. In my view the Bartók's Concert for Orchestra is in the same domain - a great mental creative exercise of a very talented music professional but the Concert lucks initials natural meaning, the meaning that the Brahms’ 2nd, 3rd and 4th symphonies do have for me.
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