@article{ART003259432},
author={Song Hongjin},
title={Baudelairean aesthetic of music Ⅱ – Weber, Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner},
journal={Cross-Cultural Studies},
issn={1598-0685},
year={2025},
volume={76},
pages={81-120},
doi={10.21049/ccs.2025.76..81}
TY - JOUR
AU - Song Hongjin
TI - Baudelairean aesthetic of music Ⅱ – Weber, Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner
JO - Cross-Cultural Studies
PY - 2025
VL - 76
IS - null
PB - Center for Cross Culture Studies
SP - 81
EP - 120
SN - 1598-0685
AB - This paper is part of a study that examines how Baudelaire’s literature resonates with the music of his time by exploring the various ways music is expressed in his poetry and criticism. As our previous studies has shown, while popular song traditions(chanson) of the 1840s contributed to the young Baudelaire’s engagement with political and social satire, the present study demonstrates that art music—including instrumental forms such as symphony and opera (i.e. classical music or musique savante)— offered an auditory world that aligned with Baudelaire’s aesthetics. Carl Maria von Weber’s “strange fanfares” and “stifled sighs” which evoke the colors of Delacroix’s “tragic sky” alongside Beethoven’s passionate melodies that resonate deeply, demonstrate Baudelaire’s fascination with the inner energy of emotion elicited by wind instruments and string tremors. If Baudelaire recognized in Franz Liszt a profound expression of the essential duality of man and the world, then Wagner’s music drama—an art form striving for the synthesis of literature and music in a total work of art—embodied Baudelaire’s own aesthetic ideal.
KW - Baudelaire;Weber;Beethoven;Liszt;Wagner
DO - 10.21049/ccs.2025.76..81
ER -
Song Hongjin. (2025). Baudelairean aesthetic of music Ⅱ – Weber, Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner. Cross-Cultural Studies, 76, 81-120.
Song Hongjin. 2025, "Baudelairean aesthetic of music Ⅱ – Weber, Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner", Cross-Cultural Studies, vol.76, pp.81-120. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2025.76..81
Song Hongjin "Baudelairean aesthetic of music Ⅱ – Weber, Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner" Cross-Cultural Studies 76 pp.81-120 (2025) : 81.
Song Hongjin. Baudelairean aesthetic of music Ⅱ – Weber, Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner. 2025; 76 81-120. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2025.76..81
Song Hongjin. "Baudelairean aesthetic of music Ⅱ – Weber, Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner" Cross-Cultural Studies 76(2025) : 81-120.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2025.76..81
Song Hongjin. Baudelairean aesthetic of music Ⅱ – Weber, Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner. Cross-Cultural Studies, 76, 81-120. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2025.76..81
Song Hongjin. Baudelairean aesthetic of music Ⅱ – Weber, Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner. Cross-Cultural Studies. 2025; 76 81-120. doi: 10.21049/ccs.2025.76..81
Song Hongjin. Baudelairean aesthetic of music Ⅱ – Weber, Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner. 2025; 76 81-120. Available from: doi:10.21049/ccs.2025.76..81
Song Hongjin. "Baudelairean aesthetic of music Ⅱ – Weber, Beethoven, Liszt and Wagner" Cross-Cultural Studies 76(2025) : 81-120.doi: 10.21049/ccs.2025.76..81
