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...affinity of the tragic and the daemonic is the chisel with which to cut in relief the face of many an artist," said Leo Schrade Wednesday night in the first of his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures on "Tragedy in the Art of Music...
...presenting the themes of his coming lectures, Schrade stressed Greek thought as "the spring of all that was to come" in the history of tragic art. Music and tragedy were one in Greek art; later civilizations annuled this marriage, allowing each to take its own course. But Schrade said that "no humanistic effort could afford its restoration," and, indeed, music drama's attempt was "more imaginary than real...
While fate, said Schrade, is that which "is sent to man from above" to govern "all vicissitudes of life," it derives both from the artist's temperament and his historical situation. Any personal best can give rise to tragic expressionism, but fate limits the use of such individuality because it dictates to each age a "constellation from which the tragic is to be inferred...
...Schrade, the idea of the fated personal daemon helps clarify "the eternal enigma of the extraordinary man." The visionary gift of the creative artist originates in his acceptance (albeit unconsciously) of this force for which he expends his energies to the limit of his nature. This drive is common to an artist's creativity and work and a stateman's wickedness alike, to both Beethoven and Napoleon; it features an enormous confidence and a wisdom far beyond common...
...author of more than 100 published works of musical scholarship and criticism, Schrade was professor of the history of music at Yale University from 1938 to 1958. His books include, "Monteverdi--Creator of Modern Music" and the first four volumes of a 12-volume edition of "Polyphonic Music of the 14th Century...