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• W271764929 abstract "Amongst attempts to account for the enduring vitality of certain works of art, the theories of T. S. Eliot and Carl Jung represent two major poles. According to Eliot, the power of the individual talent derives largely from its participation in an ongoing tradition. Especially when the tradition constitutes mainstream, new work draws power from the works that have preceded it and transmits that power to the works that it successively influences. According to Jung, however, the source of power is less literary tradition that develops in the course of time than eternal archetypes in the collective unconscious upon which each individual draws afresh. Still, the positions of Eliot and Jung are also compatible, as Leslie Fiedler has suggested in his examination of the relationship between and signature. For Fiedler, the energy of the archetype is transmitted both through conscious participation in recognized tradition and through responsiveness to an unconscious source of inspiration. A recent work that affords provocative site for testing these various theories is L'ispirazione, an opera by Sylvano Bussotti. The libretto, also written by Bussotti himself, deals explicitly with theories of inspiration and demonstrates his erudition in this area of esthetics. The musical score similarly demonstrates Bussotti's mastery of the relevant compositional traditions and his ability to relate them to his own personal voice. The result is one of the most successful works in the career of this extremely active and versatile artist. Premiered at the Florence May Festival in 1988 and revived at the Teatro Regio of Turin in 1991, L'ispirazione has struck both critics and evidently the general public as possibly the most impressive of recent Italian operas. The inspiration to which the title of this self-reflexive work refers has clearly come both from consciously studied sources and from the workings of unconscious genius. The complex intrigue of the three acts involves allusions to Bussotti himself and the late soprano Cathy Berberian, the tenth anniversary of whose death is currently being commemorated with recitals in several Italian cities. The actual fictional protagonists are composer and his daughter, soprano who performs the title role in her father's supposedly revolutionary work, the opera within an opera of the last act. The main features of their story derive, as the title page of Bussotti's libretto indicates, from philosophic tale of 1959, Die gutmachende Muse by Ernst Bloch. What hitherto has not been recognized, however, is that Bloch's tale is itself the adaptation of an episode in Zanoni, romance of 1842 by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The three versions of essentially the same story thus provide an interesting example of how traditional myth of inspiration is signatured by three different individuals. Yet in coming from various historical periods in England, Germany and Italy and belonging to the diverse genres of fiction, philosophical tale and opera, the three versions enable us to recognize as well the most powerfully universal components of the story. Of the elements common to all three versions, the most significant proves to be the identification of the muse with the daughter. That Bloch's source is Bulwer's Zanoni--and precisely the first four chapters of Book I--may be seen from the elements of plotting that the two works have in common. In both, the protagonist is mid-18th-century violinist; seemingly undisciplined and demonically driven artist, he is also the composer of fantastic works that strike, according to Bulwer, a kind of terror in those who listened. In Bulwer's romance he plays in the orchestra of the Teatro San Carlo of Naples, while in Bloch's tale he is member of the Hofoper of small German principality; but in both works he is always on the verge of losing his job. He cannot bear the dull rehearsal discipline that for Bulwer involves the music of Paisiello and Cimarosa, and what Bloch terms trifling imitations of current Italian models. …" @default.
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• W271764929 title "Bulwer, Bloch, Bussotti and the Filial Muse: Recalled and Foreseen Sources of Inspiration" @default.
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