VIEWS ON MUSIC IN ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER’S PHILOSOPHY
VIEWS ON MUSIC IN ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER’S PHILOSOPHY

Summary/Abstract: This paper intends to bring forward the views about the musical art formulated by Arthur Schopenhauer. The 20th century philosopher’s The World as Will and Representation offers valuable opinions about the place of music in relation to the other arts, as well as many statements which cluster around two positions: 1. sonorous art as a manifestation of Will, and 2. music and nature (from the perspective of the World as representation) seen as a pair sharing certain parallel features. Schopenhauer’s views are interesting in understanding the Romantic cultural context, but also as principles through which music becomes a model for discovering the world through the capacity of the sonorous art to reflect unconscious essences of reality (as universal language).

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