Thanks for your interesting post and i like the last sentence a lot...
As for Stravinski, i prefer with the mother of young Stravinski if the anecdote is true Scriabin music .. 😊
Stravinski is the most gifted composer i can think about in the two wars period, i appreciated it for sure but in casual listening...He did not change my life... Scriabin at first listening played by Sofronitsky did in two minutes poem , i realized listening to him that i never understood music in all his depth , as Bach, Josquin Des Prez or Bruckner did among few others...
For each one of us, life perspective are different... i feel greatly the Promethean impulse to free humanity in Scriabin as i felt it in Beethoven, and stay cold most of the times to the supreme total Stravinski mastery of all aspects of music stylistic... Nobody can claim that Stavinski is not a musical absolute genius to be clear... The part of Stravinski i prefer are his religious works...Because i like choral music too much...
My very best...
Thanks for the link, I will have a look. The Adorno ’school’ of dialectic thinking is as much a relic of the past as the compositional ’school’ of serialism. And to be clear about my own position in this ’debate’: I can ’appreciate’ Schoenberg for his historic role of liberating western music from its diatonic straight jacket, but I rarely listen to his music. From the Viennese School I much prefer Berg en Weberg But I ’love’ Stravinsky’s music, regardless of the stylistic period.
As for music’s cosmic significance, allow me to quote one of the great iconoclasts of American 20th century music: ’information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music, music is the best’.