Musikalischer Aktivismus und Engagement

Different Contemporary Compositional Approaches Share an Activist Character. The essay argues that this activism is accompanied by a sentimental music whose forms are satire, elegy and idyll. It then confronts sentimental music with the older concept of committed music, whose idea recalls Sartre, and whose necessary move towards silence it elaborates with reference to two works by Jacques Wildberger. At the end, it argues the case for a political music that does not rest on any statement, but rather speaks through its work on the material.