Concerning Sergiu Celibidache’s Phenomenology of Music
Concerning Sergiu Celibidache’s Phenomenology of Music

Summary/Abstract: The presented paper proposes to reach an extended and complex subject, but not lacking from the lives of any dedicated musician, the analysis material being the theory and philosophy of the conductor Sergiu Celibidache upon music. The fundamental ideas,compressed and arranged in the style of a lecture, are extracted and passed on from the one recorded speech of his life, which took place in the Aula Magna of the University of Ludwig Maximilian on June 21st, 1985, in Munich. Although it is known that, along his career, the conductor developed with impressive care his theories about the practice of phenomenology of music, no other essay has been previously fully recorded or published. This being because of his fear of tearing the true reality of the thought apart, by alterating its essence with superficial methods which do not cover the truthful representation of it. The text from which the ideas are gathered in present time about the teaching of the phenomenology of music had been published first in 2001 by Gundolf Lehmhaus, and later reproduced in a new edition in 2012, by a Romanian publishing house.

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