L’anomalia Verdi, ovvero la resa del professore: il pensiero di Cesare Lombroso sulla musica
In 1894, Cesare Lombroso became the spokesman of a new way of understanding music: no longer as an art “inspired by feeling(s)”, but as a renewed discipline, entering a “totally scientific phase”. The Italian positivist states that one can explore the world of sounds from a completely different pers...
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| description | In 1894, Cesare Lombroso became the spokesman of a new way of understanding music: no longer as an art “inspired by feeling(s)”, but as a renewed discipline, entering a “totally scientific phase”. The Italian positivist states that one can explore the world of sounds from a completely different perspective, based on the debate aroused by Nordau on the evolution or degeneration of the artist and his or her art. Once again, Lombroso thus explores the theories of genius and madness, and ends up ruling out any confusion between genius as a form of degenerative neurosis, and an ingenious work, deprived of any pathological connotations. This theory underlines the difference between Verdi, considered as “ingenious”, and Wagner, a “genius”. Lombroso, who considered himself ignorant in matters of music, thus introduces new, previously neglected elements by “technicians” (according to Lombroso’s expression), which allow for a new interpretation of a crucial part of nineteenth-century Italian cultural scenery. |
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| title | L’anomalia Verdi, ovvero la resa del professore: il pensiero di Cesare Lombroso sulla musica |
| title_full | L’anomalia Verdi, ovvero la resa del professore: il pensiero di Cesare Lombroso sulla musica |
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| title_short | L’anomalia Verdi, ovvero la resa del professore: il pensiero di Cesare Lombroso sulla musica |
| title_sort | l anomalia verdi ovvero la resa del professore il pensiero di cesare lombroso sulla musica |
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