Musik & Ästhetik

Heft 04 / Oktober 2014

Thomas Kabisch

»Verschwindendes Erscheinen« als Prinzip einer Musik der Moderne . Vladimir Jankélévitch über Debussy, Fauré und Ravel

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»Disappearing Manifestation« As the Principle of a Music of Modernity: Vladimir Jankélévitch on Debussy, Fauré and Ravel. – Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903-1985) only entered the consciousness of the wider, non-Francophone musicological community in 2003, with the English translation of his central work on musical aesthetics, La musique et l’ineffable, by Carolyn Abbate. But the choice »Drastic or Gnostic?« proposed by Abbate under the influence of current enthusiasm for »presence« misses the core of Jankélévitch’s philosophy of music. This essay examines how Jankélévitch develops a conception of French music as true music, philosophically substantiates it through an analysis of the interplay of negativity and affirmation in music, and carries it out historically and analytically in a detailed engagement with the poetics of Fauré, Debussy and Ravel.