Very interesting thoughts on Mozart and, more generally, the artistic charism that God bestows on certain highly creative individuals–oftentimes unbeknown to them–to translate his theophanies into the artistic medium…
Yes, I found it interesting, especially because of Tavener’s own expertise. Of course, his religious journey is also reflected in these comments, since they indicate a great deal of his looking for the movement of the Spirit in and through people of multiple religious traditions now.
So different from the “dilapidated,” post-Enlightenment view of Mozart, as propogated in the film Amadeus! This is much closer to what Kierkegaard thought of Mozart.
Now that Tavener casts himself as the composer for the “Traditionalists” (Schuon, Guenon et al.), it is all the more fitting that he celebrates the composer of The Magic Flute, with its Masonic symbolism, since the tenets, and the backgrounds of some of the Traditionalists, have affinities with Freemasonry(see Sedgwick’s Against the Modern World on the Traditionalists). Tavener used to write as an Orthodox Christian composer… but that was then.
Very interesting thoughts on Mozart and, more generally, the artistic charism that God bestows on certain highly creative individuals–oftentimes unbeknown to them–to translate his theophanies into the artistic medium…
Yes, I found it interesting, especially because of Tavener’s own expertise. Of course, his religious journey is also reflected in these comments, since they indicate a great deal of his looking for the movement of the Spirit in and through people of multiple religious traditions now.
So different from the “dilapidated,” post-Enlightenment view of Mozart, as propogated in the film Amadeus! This is much closer to what Kierkegaard thought of Mozart.
Now that Tavener casts himself as the composer for the “Traditionalists” (Schuon, Guenon et al.), it is all the more fitting that he celebrates the composer of The Magic Flute, with its Masonic symbolism, since the tenets, and the backgrounds of some of the Traditionalists, have affinities with Freemasonry(see Sedgwick’s Against the Modern World on the Traditionalists). Tavener used to write as an Orthodox Christian composer… but that was then.