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- Title
LANDSCAPE-RHYTHM-MEMORY: CONTEXTS FOR MAPPING THE MUSIC OF GEORGE ENESCU.
- Authors
TAYLOR, BENEDICT
- Abstract
George Enescu (1881-1955) falls askance customary narratives of twentieth-century music. Belonging to a lost generation situated between the late-Romantic modernism of Strauss and Mahler and the radical modernism of Schoenberg and Stravinsky, familiar historiographic notions find little hold on his music. The present article seeks to establish more pertinent aesthetic categories for understanding Enescu by proposing that his music is characterized by its idiosyncratic approach to time and its perceived spatial attributes. Drawing on a range of thinkers from both Enescu's native Romania and his adopted homeland of France, the article offers a series of five studies around Enescu's music, using a variety of interconnected concepts such as landscape, rhythm, and memory to map out the boundaries of a conceptual space for it to inhabit. These sections examine the construction and problematization of a national and nostalgic musical landscape in the Romanian Rhapsody No. 2; the powerful sense of space and movement created by the First Orchestral Suite; the vast cyclic networks of the Octet and Symphony No. 2; and the role of childhood memory in such works as the Impressions d'Enfance and Suite Villageoise.
- Subjects
ENESCO, Georges, 1881-1955; MUSIC history; STRAUSS, Richard, 1864-1949; MAHLER, Gustav, 1860-1911; ORCHESTRAL music -- History &; criticism
- Publication
Music & Letters, 2017, Vol 98, Issue 3, p394
- ISSN
0027-4224
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ml/gcx054