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SKETCH
OF
A New Esthetic of Music
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
22375
 SKETCH OF A NEW ESTHETICOF 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.”
[“Der mächtige Zauberer.”]
Loosely joined together as regards literaryform, the following notes are, in reality, theoutcome of convictions long held and slowly matured.
In them a problem of the first magnitude isformulated with apparent simplicity, without givingthe key to its final solution; for the problemcannot be solved for generations—if at all.
But it involves an innumerable series of lesserproblems, which I present to the consideration ofthose whom they may concern. For it is a longtime since any one has devoted himself to earnestmusical research.
It is true, that admirable works of genius arisein every period, and I have always taken my standin the front rank of those who joyfully acclaimedthe passing standard-bearers; and still it seems tome that of all these beautiful paths leading so farafield—none lead upward.
 The spirit of an art-work, the measure of emotion,of humanity, that is in it—these remain unchanged invalue through changing years; the form which thesethree assumed, the manner of their expression, and theflavor of the epoch which gave them birth, are transient,and age rapidly.
Spirit and emotion retain their essence, in theart-work as in man himself; we admire technicalachievements, yet they are outstripped, or cloy thetaste and are discarded.
Its ephemeral qualities give a work the stampof “modernity;” its unchangeable essence hindersit from becoming “obsolete.” Among both “modern”and “old” works we find good and bad,genuine and spurious. There is nothing properlymodern—only things which have come into beingearlier or later; longer in bloom, or sooner withered.The Modern and the Old have always been.
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ARTS
Art-forms are the more lasting, the more closelythey adhere to the nature of their individualspecies of art, the purer they keep their essentialmeans and ends.
Sculpture relinquishes the expression of thehuman pupil, and effe                        
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