The Creative Process in Music from Mozart to Kurtag

William Kinderman

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University of Illinois Press
07 February 2017

Theory of music & musicology; Western "classical" music; Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900

Great music arouses wonder: how did the composer create such an original work of art? What was the artist's inspiration, and how did that idea become a reality? Cultural products inevitably arise from a context, a submerged landscape that is often not easily accessible. To bring such things to light, studies of the creative process find their cutting edge by probing beyond the surface, opening new perspectives on the apparently familiar.

In this intriguing study, William Kinderman opens the door to the composer's workshop, investigating not just the final outcome but the process of creative endeavor in music. Focusing on the stages of composition, Kinderman maintains that the most rigorous basis for the study of artistic creativity comes not from anecdotal or autobiographical reports, but from original handwritten sketches, drafts, revised manuscripts, and corrected proof sheets. He explores works of major composers from the eighteenth century to the present, from Mozart's piano music and Beethoven's Piano Trio in F to KurtÁg's Kafka Fragments and Hommage À R. Sch. Other chapters examine Robert Schumann's Fantasie in C, Mahler's Fifth Symphony, and BartÓk's Dance Suite. Kinderman's analysis takes the form of ""genetic criticism,"" tracing the genesis of these cultural works, exploring their aesthetic meaning, and mapping the continuity of a central European tradition that has displayed remarkable vitality for over two centuries, as accumulated legacies assumed importance for later generations. Revealing the diversity of sources, rejected passages and movements, fragmentary unfinished works, and aborted projects that were absorbed into finished compositions, The Creative Process in Music from Mozart to KurtÁg illustrates the wealth of insight that can be gained through studying the creative process.

By: William Kinderman
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9780252082603
ISBN 10: 0252082605
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 07 February 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Wlliam Kinderman is a professor of music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the editor of The String Quartets of Beethoven, and the author of the three-volume study Artaria 195: Beethoven's Sketchbook for the Missa solemnis and the Piano Sonata in E Major, Opus 109.

Reviews for The Creative Process in Music from Mozart to Kurtag

A significant contribution to musical scholarship. --Fontes Artis Musicae Few scholars would be able to deftly navigate through material as diverse as the musical sketches of both Mozart and Gyoergy Kurtag with the ease, perspective, analytical rigour and insight of Kinderman. A masterly chapter on an unfinished piano trio by Beethoven was no surprise from a scholar well known for his research into the latter's Diabelli Variations, but other chapters devoted to Schumann, Mahler or Bartok are equally probing. The methodology successfully channels Critique genetique, the French literary subdiscipline devoted to the scientific study of creative process in literature, and the many case studies full of musical excerpts could well be adapted to a classroom setting.-Jonathan Goldman (Associate Professor of Musicology, Universite de Montreal) An engaging investigation of the creative process and genetic criticism. These deeply thoughtful essays establish an enviable range, from Mozart through the grand figures of the German nineteenth century (Beethoven, Schumann) and beyond to three seminal figures of the twentieth (Mahler, Bartok, Kurtag). A significant contribution. --Richard Kramer, author of Unfinished Music