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| | Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina and the Impotence of Early Lateness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Pfitzner writes that musical inspiration is given concrete form as Einfall, a word which may be translated as 'idea,' or even, in context, 'musical theme.' Einfall, however, simply is: it is an irreducible essence that can be described (as beautiful, ugly, original, derivative, appropriate for sonata form, etc.) but not analysed (GS, 2:15556). |
 | | Pfitzner's metaphorical Doppelgänger Palestrina is depicted as a withdrawn and unpolitical, i.e. |
 | | Pfitzner's writings are full of Spenglerian images of decline such as his metaphor of the sun for tonality: it rose over the centuries, but now seems to be setting he wonders if we might still enjoy some of its light for a little while longer (GS 2:235). |
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