Daniel Auner, Dagmar Glüxam | J.Seb. stream

What is the effect of a musical affect?

Daniel Auner has worked intensively with the Viennese musicologist Dr. Dagmar Glüxam together. Her recently published book "From the soul you have to play" - LINK formed the basis for an interpretation purely according to the rules of musical rhetoric. One recording was supported by the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and will hopefully be released in 2020 with a Corona delay.

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What effect has the affect?

We are today so used to hear some of Bachs music played in a meditative character that it became a "tradition" to play f.ex. the Adagio of BWV 1001, the first piece in this cycle, very calm. But look at these fast notes, these modulations and strong dissonances. Sei Solo - translated into English - Be Solo, could also mean that he used these works to process the loss of his beloved wife Barbar…