Słyszenie czyste: doświadczanie muzyki w refleksji Pascala Quignarda
Pure Hearing: Experiencing Music in Reflections by Pascal Quignard

Summary/Abstract: The spiritual and intellectual formation of the outstanding French man of letters – Pascal Quignard – was delineated by musical passion, alongside philological and philosophical studies. Quignard learned how to play the organ, the violin, the viola and the cello. It was his wish that each encounter with music was to commence with its discovery within oneself, an inner hearing. That what was heard had to be, therefore, exteriorised. This was the condition for a true experiencing of music by the performer and the listener. For this reason Quignard regarded being-in-music as an inner experience. In this perspective, all that which the author wrote about the lost voice, the recollections of his own beginning, words and sounds preceding music, and the process of reaching via music that, which we feel prior to the moment when we are capable of rationalising it, assumes a new dimension.

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