![]() Although they were not published as a single opus, they constitute a cycle, or as Mozart called them, “the six difficult sonatas”. Moreover, I believe that these two layers are as two roads leading to the same destination.īetween the summer of 1774 and the spring of 1775, around the same time as Rameau’s Nephew, during his stay in Munich, Mozart composed his first batch of six keyboard sonatas. I, for one, believe that rather than be at odds with each other, the emotional and intellectual aspects of the musical experience go hand in hand. ![]() Rather, I will try to show that the conflict between “emotional” and “intellectual” in music, whether it has already been composed or is yet to be, is a false one. I won’t be taking a stand against any point of view. Even though Diderot is writing about the question of how music should be composed, and I am writing about how a known work of music should be thought of, the fundamental question remains the same. But nowadays they all fall down one after the other, like houses of cards.” This impassioned passage ties in with the central question of this entry: should music be treated as an intellectual or emotional experience? Rameau’s neurotic nephew takes a clear position against the perceived formalism of his uncle and the values his music supposedly espouses. The performances of Armide went on for ever. In the old days a thing like Tancrède, Issé, L’Europe galante, Les Indes and Castor, Les Talents lyriques ran for four, five or six months. ![]() Lord! these confounded Bouffons, with their Serve Padrone, their Tracallo, have given us a real kick in the backside. That Stabat ought to have been burned by the public hangman. There should be a police order forbidding all and sundry to have the Stabat of Pergolesi sung. ![]() He would see my tongue hanging out a foot and never so much as give me a glass of water, but for all his making the hell of a hullaballoo at the octave or the seventh-la-la-la, dee-dee-dee, tum-te-tum-people who are beginning to get the hang of things and no longer take a din for music will never be content with that. He continues: “It’s not that I care twopence about dear uncle, if ‘dear’ he be. “I don’t want to be overheard, and there are lots of people here who know me, but it is dull,” says Rameau’s nephew of his uncle’s music in Diderot’s eponymous book. ![]()
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