Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music

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BY FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Translated from the German by Dr. TH. BAKER
NEW YORK: G. SCHIRMER 1911
Copyright, 1907 By FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Copyright, 1911 By G. SCHIRMER
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SKETCH OF A NEW ESTHETIC OF MUSIC
“What seek you? Say! And what do you expect?”— “I know not what; the Unknown I would have! What's known to me, is endless; I would go Beyond the end: The last word still is wanting.”
Loosely joined together as regards literary form, the following notes are, in reality, the outcome of convictions long held and slowly matured.
In them a problem of the first magnitude is formulated with apparent simplicity, without giving the key to its final solution; for the problem cannot be solved for generations—if at all.