Beredt-überdreht. Gedankensplitter zu Jörg Widmanns Auseinandersetzung mit der musikalischen Tradition
Eloquent and Weird: Understanding Jörg Widmann’s Dialogue with Musical Traditions

Summary/Abstract: Jörg Widmann (b. 1973) is one of the most productive German composers of his generation, the chief characteristic of his work being a dialogue with the classical legacy. Going beyond postmodernism, Widmann poses the question as to how the energies of the classic musical tradition can be translated into contemporary achievements and how they might resonate with our present-day experience. In order to understand the dialectics of this discourse with the past, we can requisition Walter Benjamin’s interpretation of the relation of Franz Kafka to religious traditions, this serving as our prime investigatory model.

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