Kunstvaerk

Can you hear Time?

essays on music and and people

We all know about time. But where is it? Music may well be the only medium where time is the basic material. Music makes time audible.

  • Opera lottery 
  • Images of thought 
  • The music critic as a giraffe 
  • The revolt as cult - Glenn Gould, 
  • Can you hear time? 
  • The living corpse 
  • The Janus head of music 
  • New music is aging - or is it?  
  • The cleaved story of music 
  • Behind Bach 
  • A deviant - Domenico Scarlatti 
  • Eternal Amadeus 
  • The time of our time - Ludwig van Beethoven 
  • A star pales - Franz Liszt 
  • Whims of fashion - Giuseppe Verdi 
  • When music retaliates - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 
  • When doom came into vogue - Gustav Mahler 
  • The harmless terrorist - Erik Satie 
  • The old, young wild ones - Alexander Scriabin 
  • Chronic innocence - Maurice Ravel 
  • A classic on the waiting line - Igor Stravinsky 
  • Domain of the spirit - Anton Webern 
  • Time as space - Edgard Varèse 
  • A circle and a line - Giacinto Scelsi 
  • John was here - John Cage 
  • Something unspeakably sad - György Ligeti 
  • Made in Italy - Luciano Berio 
  • The unbearable lightness of sounds - Niccolò Castiglioni
1998, 242 pages