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Posted by Impious "The greatness of an artist cannot be measured by the "beautiful feelings" he arouses: leave that idea to females. But according to the degree to which he approaches the grand style, to which he is capable of the grand style. This style has this in common that it disdains to please; that it forgets to persuade; that it commands; that it wills-- To become master of the chaos one is; to compel one's chaos to become form: to become logical, simple, unambiguous, mathematics, law--that is the grand ambition here.-- It repels; such men of force are no longer loved--a desert spreads around them, a silence, a fear as in the presence of some great sacrilege-- All the arts know such aspirants to the grand style: why are they lacking in music? No musician has yet built as that architect did who created the Palazzo Pitti-- Here lies a problem. Does music perhaps belong to a culture in which the domain of men of force of all kinds has ceased? Does the concept grand style ultimately stand in contradiction to the soul of music--to the "woman" in our music?--"
on 9/8/2007, 8:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Review of Nietzsche's Manfred Meditation (musical composition)"
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: Imagine writing an ostensibly beautiful
: mathematical solution on a blackboard, and
: then the chalk begins to squeak without end
: ... Just thinking about this piece of
: "music" makes me cringe.
[WP 842.]
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