• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Claude Debussy: Douze études pour piano: Musikalische Poetik eines Anti-Akademikers
  • Beteiligte: JANZ, TOBIAS
  • Erschienen: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015
  • Erschienen in: Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 72 (2015) 1, Seite 55-75
  • Sprache: Deutsch
  • ISSN: 0003-9292
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  • Beschreibung: The author considers Debussy's twelve etudes for piano as a systematic reflection on the foundations of music and musical composition. For four of the etudes, procedures relating to the artistic de-composition of the foundations of their musical language are discussed; on the basis of these procedures, each etude develops its own distinct formal conception. The line of reasoning used is supported by Slavoj Žižek's thoughts regarding the pre-synthetic imagination and its importance for the development of modern subjectivity. The finding that Debussy's etudes exhibit this process of subjectivation can be understood as a cue for the etudes' place in music history.