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Littérateur, pianist, decadent. Living in exile. Last transmitter of the Villoing-Rubinstein tradition.

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Joined August 2020

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@VonKoczalski

Koczalski's ghost

4 years

Ambition was my idol, which was broken Before the shrines of Sorrow, and of Pleasure... 'Time is, Time was, Time's past:'—a chymic treasure Is glittering youth, which I have spent betimes— My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes. — Lord Byron, Don Juan

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I hate that in Spanish you have to consistently refer to yourself as "soy".

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@FightHaven Another job where women are underrepresented

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I finished high school at an American school in Europe, which followed the International Baccalaureate curriculum. I coined to myself the phrase "reactionary liberalism" to describe it. The culture of ressentiment it "centered" has completed its hegemonic takeover of institutions

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@FistedFoucault When do we get wholesome chungus Jap historiography? "Reluctant, nuanced death marches and samurai decapitations"

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BAP explain that Longhouse is regression to favela slumworld life: you see institutional vandalism like this of highest Apollonian achievements in art and appreciate how literal this is; also that ressentiment is at the core of it all. Compare also orientation of femael gaze

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@godcoded - constantly running physiognomy checks

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@FischerKing64 Almost none of my clothes can go in a dryer. Americans wear garbage throwaway clothing for the most part

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@DailyMail He's not wrong

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It was mentioned earlier that the cultivated man can mix freely at all levels of society (the referent was 19thC). This was always a hallmark of aristocrats. Only the insecure bourgeois, the stuffy climber, is constantly preoccupied with class, status and hierarchy

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@PrisonPlanet With the exception of a handful of celebrity chefs, the English are not known for culinary excellence.

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@Froggenthusias1 "The children yearn for the mines"

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Beethoven's practice of daily improvisation is rarely if ever cited as one of the main reasons for the greatness of his compositions. As Hindemith noted, masterpieces arise from a "hotbed of musical activity", not from random inspiration or from elaborate theories of composition

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@butt_watermelon I love how these threads will say it's everything but genetics

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@ArianeTodes The "normalisation of classical music" is already a proven failure, almost a century in the making. You can't shoehorn the culture of aristocratic Europe into modern democratic egalitarian media society and expect anything other than abject mediocrity and incomprehension

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There's an arrogance often seen in middle-class people, midwits, and fathers: that secretly they know better; their "common sense", cut-the-bull "insight" trumps the nuance and perspective of years of honest, deep, and critical study. Often they're thinking of lines from a movie

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@brian_t_muldoon @sciam This is the worst propaganda I've ever seen

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I say this as someone collected enough to realize I had to leave Ukraine immediately, based on second-hand information and vague statements of the State Department and Embassy, with days to spare: the war is widening, and you will not believe what is coming.

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@NoahCarl90 All that's left of Oxford's history at this point are the buildings

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@JulianaLung He has a relatively full head of hair because he doesn't have the gene for male pattern baldness

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@coldhealing He's already planning his hermetic, synaesthetic escape from bourgeois society

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Nietzsche's entire philosophy pales in comparison to the truth-content of Mozart's music

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Does it ever occur to the ideologues that there was more human diversity in the world, by every objective metric, in 1900 than there ever will be again?

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Bach's mastery of every element of music (rhythm, melody, counterpoint, harmony, tonality) gives his shorter works such as the preludes and fugues of WTC a quality of medias res: you are immediately plunged into a complete world of identity and expression; fully realized, unique.

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@TheCourier007 Historically, literally everything we know as art and culture was produced under the patronage of the reactionary European aristocracies. Even modernists like Pound, Eliot, etc. were "far right".

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@kylegriffin1 The press's job is not to police language, 1984-style, for the dubious edification of devotees of identity politics.

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@PrisonPlanet Interesting how you said an attack on Ukraine would never happen

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@NgagkpaCintbro It was a joke, bro

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@MattTheBrand Gin and tonic fixes this

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@ElectionLegal Imagine a bodega stamping on a human face — forever

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@renenum10 At the time I didn't know it would end in its reductio ad absurdum, but should have

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Western "classical" music is what I think about all day: have done since I was about 10. This musical tradition, the whole grand thing since even before the fifteenth century is the greatest thing that will ever happen

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Mozart died today in 1791...long live the greatest musician of all time

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@AFP @EndGameWW3 Yes that's a logical conclusion for a military to come to when you fire indiscriminately on the civilian population for weeks

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@Aristos_Revenge "PRS"

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@PrisonPlanet Paris has fallen. It is so sad. I was last there in early 2013, visited Notre Dame to see the new bells displayed in the nave prior to installation. Two years later Charlie Hebdo & Bataclan attacks, and in 2019 I watched Notre Dame burn live on TV in NYC, which is also now toast.

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We in here

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In reading, having from an early age the instinct and the resourcefulness to know when you are reading major, seminal works versus secondary or tertiary ones is one way to maximize your chances of having significant and original thought as you mature.

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@PrisonPlanet I think the advice is: find a girlfriend who isn't on Tinder/Insta/OnlyFans

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Imagine living in a city without one of the world's finest opera houses

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In 1918, Rachmaninoff turned down an offer to become the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, because he felt he was not sufficiently acquainted with the repertoire. Klaus Mäkelä isn't either; but he will happily accept any and every position offered him simultaneously

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Stendhal, Schumann, Wagner, Flaubert, Proust: essentially they all understood the musical-erotic (a type of idealism) as the ultimate horizon of aesthetics, if not of Being itself; though their artistic responses to this recognition were highly idiosyncratic

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Broadly speaking, the history of western music can be divided in half; the early period consisting of stile antico choral polyphony, the second the stile moderno, which birthed opera and the instrumental tradition. The first period is vast, largely unknown, hardly performed

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@husafell_stone A guy like Tate would have immediately been considered a major liability to his unit in Jünger's war

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@DrunkAustrian Already in 2000 when I lived in Vienna, there was a strong theater-kid occupation vibe, with street "demos" a frequent occurrence

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I often forget that general history, much less any specialized form of it, is a complete blank for 98% of people. They do not possess even the most rudimentary periodization of the world's experience. Many Americans can't even state the years WWII began and ended

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@FischerKing64 What typically leads to contested wills? One would imagine an intentionally created and legally competently drafted will would leave little leeway for litigation

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The music of J. S. Bach is no more "mathematical" than any other common-practice music; it involves nothing other than the normal elements of music. It is just more strictly contrapuntal in many cases. Please demonstrate the "mathematics"

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@aliner Nothing more poetic than the erotic sentiments of a pederast.

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@RealJamesWoods We're balls deep in the Twilight Zone, have been for some time

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@copemuch Gasmogging

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The replies to this are breathtaking. Democratic culture insists everyone must have an opinion on everything, and also be certain they live in the best of all possible worlds. Never mind the several professional musicians, teachers, and scholars who agreed with him

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Classical music is dying - you see it by all the grey heads in a concert hall. But it’s not just dying of age/lack of interest. Fewer people transmit the knowledge. Younger people don’t even know it. Once played students very basic Beethoven/Mozart/Wagner pieces. The effect on

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@FischerKing64 A point I made for decades in Europe, where they erroneously assume the welfare state can assume this role successfully. That said, in the US, there have been large private endowments for institutions like the Metropolitan Opera, Yale's music program, etc.

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Mozart has long been typecast as a kind of idiot-savant who scribbled out perfect music in an automatic writing process. But even in a brief song, Das Veilchen, written in midsummer, one perceives the richness and complexity of his inner life; emotion, memory, imagery, symbol

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Not one single book on the history of pre-twentieth century western music, whether focused on composition, performance practice, pedagogy (an almost unknown subdiscipline), or even sociology, has yet been written from a conservative position. It's all modernist teleology

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@pammy_just @Miriam2626 @staceyabrams Sorry who is stacey abrams? Sounds like someone I shouldn't give a fuck about.

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Rachmaninoff's conception of "the point" in the performance of a work, that phrase or phrases toward which all flows and from which all recedes, involves a Platonic image of its execution; however the actual realization is purposely never fixed, but essentially improvised

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A young J.S. Bach walked away from his own job—200 miles away—to hear Buxtehude, and, in his words, "comprehend one thing and another about his art." The sublime harmony and religious awe of North German organ music:

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D. Buxtehude - Praeludium BuxWV 146 in F sharp minor

Diderik BuxtehudePraeludium BuxWV 146 in F sharp minorJean-Charles AblitzerOrgue historique Bielfeldt (1730-1736)Église St Wilhadi, Stade, Basse-Saxe (Allema...

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The decay of memory is a profoundly underestimated cause of high cultural decline

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@MrSepsubi Ah yes. The trilingual Anglo who lived most of his life in the Netherlands learns the world doesn't revolve around America

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@myth_pilot In Moby Dick one of the characters experiences this and goes insane

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The majority of jobs and "careers" are just a black hole of opportunity cost

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@Martposting Plath's poetry is a cringefest

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@Mitchel53048727 @bog_beef White women, man. White women.

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@MarkDice Histrionic personality disorder. I've seen it numerous times.

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@CharlestonArchi If it makes you feel any better/worse, this is what they are currently building at the city-center end of my street, an elegant historic avenue in a medieval European city:

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@xctlot As something of a canary in the coalmine in this regard, it's been fascinating and horrifying to watch the precession of incompetence creeping through all the mainstream institutions over the past two decades.

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The average person's musical intelligence is functionally retarded

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@ggreenwald @KyraPhillips Where are the ICC arrest warrants?

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The men of the nineteenth century, the artists and geniuses, were free men. They wrote as they acted. Despite all claims to the contrary, you do not enjoy a similar condition

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"Classical music" as a label causes much confusion. A largely meaningless catchall marketing term in a leveling environment that commodifies and pigeonholes all music into "genres". The historical reality is almost a millennium of multifarious traditions, incredibly vast in scope

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@skraj76 @Telegraph True. After the silly phase you get the horror

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@xbtGBH Yo Mike!

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@PrisonPlanet Being imprisoned inside your own country is a serious violation of foundational principles of international law.

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I first joined Twitter in late 2018 with a first version of this account. For a long time, my feed consisted solely of music, decadent literary accounts, and Michael Porfirio Mason and his following. It was golden. Now it's just spam fitness garbage, politics, and whining broads

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@sonkevllen @IAPonomarenko Pariah state. North Korea

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One reason artists are given to eccentricity is the simple fact that they must consistently lower inhibitions and dissolve boundaries in their minds in order to be divinely receptive. A state not unlike that induced by hallucinogens

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Most modern pianists have essentially zero development of the hands. In the 19th century and before, powerful vascularity and muscularity was a sign that the technical foundation had been maximized, affording maximal tonal and tactile control of the instrument. Busoni:

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@DiMartinoBooth Do the landlords get moratoriums on their obligations?

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Rameau is another excellent example of a slow-developing musician. Indeed, he first won continental fame as a music theorist with his treatise on harmony. He turned to opera at the age of fifty. Boulanger loved to cite this example. But today you get young idiots pushed on you

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@AmericanGwyn The poor man had very bad eyesight.

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@Nrd_man This is a paraphrase of a line from Anna Karenina: "and another thing, women are all more materialistic than men. We make something immense out of love, but they are always terre-a-terre."

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@BowTiedMara I didn't know Thiel was a legitimate intellectual until I caught him on Rogan. Well-educated, rounded minds like his are exceedingly rare in Silicon Valley. I will read

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@NatalieSuB @FreddSays "The future is full of opportunity for all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name."

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@cmk_RN @KyivIndependent A lion. Lviv, where I lived until February 5th, was full of them, as the lion is the city's symbol.

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Anon: you have on numerous occasions stated that you "must live in a certain way"; something about "aesthetics" and "aristocracy" and "Mediterranean lifestyle." Regret to inform — you possess neither wealth nor talent; you are what used to be called 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘦 —

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Sunday morning stroll through the neighborhood

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Modern musicians struggle to grasp and actively resist the notion that historically, Western music was transmitted in a manner identical to that of, say, Renaissance sculpting: an apprentice was bound to a master and learned a largely objective practice by imitating models

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Those who obsess about their "identity" are on some pathological level insecure. Superior people acknowledge their worthiness as self-evident and do not trouble themselves either about origins or others

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Yesterday Jordan Peterson reposted a clip from a Rogan podcast where he talks about music. First he claims that music is non-representational (Affektenlehre and program music no obstacle), then he talks about a Ramones concert and how this was transcendental; then he cries

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@DEMOCRACYFAN129 You can have any democracy you want, so long as it's gay

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Whatever your pursuits in life, art, women, knowledge, wealth, recognition...it's vitally important to interrogate your motivations. Externalities can obscure these for years. Hence when I heard Miles Davis say, "to me, knowledge is happiness" it was something of a revelation

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What people often mistake for "arrogance" is rather the impatience of competence in a grossly incompetent world.

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We've entered the "Nietzsche was a great musician" arc

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@HarmlessYardDog "One hundred...too low, terrain! Fifty..."

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@zerohedge That's because the NYT told me it's just a conspiracy theory.

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@Reuters And we're on the precipice of global economic collapse and famine

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@mtracey White women who have never been to Ukraine and will never go there but one day "will definitely go there after the war" are quite sure Ukraine is very important to them, like so important

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@corsair21c A woman recently asked me how I "had time" to know things about her city directly relevant to my own academic background. And a while back a woman asked me how I "had time" to keep my apartment clean

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