PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kopecký, Jiří
TI  - SØREN KIERKEGAARD AND SENSUOUS/SENSUAL IMMEDIACY OF MUSIC OF WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART'S DON GIOVANNI
DP  - 2007 Jun 11
TA  - Musicologica Olomucensia
PG  - 121--137
VI  - 9
IP  - 1
IS  - 27879186
AB  - The Søren Kierkegaard's work provides inexhaustible material above all for philosophers, his perfect acquaintance with theatre however left inspirative ideas for the aesthetics of theatre, music etc. This study deals with the essay The Immediate Stages of the Erotic or the Musical Erotic from the 1st part of Either/Or. For Kierkegaard music represented - as for many other romanticists in the 19th century - a sort of art with extraordinary rich and so far not fully exploited possibilities. In spite of an almost ecstatic admiration of the opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and thanks to the method, which overcame pitfalls of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's dialectics and screened one and the same theme in multiple rotation, Kierkegaard managed to reach conclusions, which are not limited only to Mozart's work but overtook its age and can be applied to music as general. According to Kierkegaard music is determined by "sensuous genius", which manifests itself in an immediate course in time. Music introduces its own conditions of time (hence the author's notes about the music daemonic), it is able as a medium provide connection with nonmusical phenomena, which are characteristic of its sensuous immediacy. Kierkegaard's deposit touches also contemporary state of music aesthetics (e.g. phenomenology and its finding both the responsive and responsible methodology) and music practice (e.g. Michael Haneke's performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni in Paris 2006).