Subjective! Lecture series of András Batta - The World of Yesterday #2
Subjective! Lecture series of András Batta - The World of Yesterday #2
This lecture is held in Hungarian.
The World of Yesterday is the title of Stefan Zweig's poignant autobiography, written as a refugee in a foreign country in the darkest years of Europe, before he left the "world of yesterday" of his own free will in 1942, in the hopelessness of "today". "A European 'among the whites', he bade farewell as the final conclusion to the tragic fate of his generation. For good, but not for good. What remains is a legacy, a memory and a hope that gives strength in times of crisis in Europe, including today. Europe draws from itself, renewed by its unique spirit. Perhaps it is the immortal past that will lead us into the future. A web of great works can protect old Europe from disintegration and extinction. In this sense, his new Subjective series turns to the world of yesterday.
The literal meaning of remix is remixing, and it has so far only been applied to pop music, obviously because the tools (mixing consoles, software) themselves are missing from the classical music performing apparatus. But in a broader sense, quite a few composers have also remixed the classics since the late 1910s, with Stravinsky and Prokofiev at the forefront. In this case, the past was not perceived as a golden age, but was literally renewed (neoclassicism). - wanted a counter to the swaggering romanticism that had been going on for more than a century. Had the horrors of the First World War swept Romanticism away? There must be something to this, since a similar process took place after the Second World War. In any case, throughout Europe in the 1920s, the music of the past came to life in the language of the avant-garde. But how? That is what we are looking for.
