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My hometown Landau,
pond behind the theater
Official website of the composer, harpsichordist, piano teacher
Bernd Philippsen.
In our times there is no beautiful and true art music
-Entertainment music is not art.
-Modern art music is repellent.
-Classical music is dead, it is a museum and a circus.
There is no beautiful classical art music today
But I am composing beautiful classical art music again.
Between the artless beauty of pop
and ugly art of the avant-garde
is my beautiful and true art music
Ringing truth, eternal beauty.
A difficult task. I knew that even as a child.
That is why I have prepared myself in silence for many decades.
I studied, composed, reflected, gathered courage and faith.
Hundreds of compositions were created...
And I redefined the tonality from the natural tone series
Here you can see and hear the purely tuned secret
behind the famous chord sequence from Richard Wagner's music drama
“Tristan and Isolde”, the first chord of which, as the ‘Tristan chord’, is said by the majority of musicologists to have been both the trigger and the symptom of the crisis of tonality that has been talked about.
But Wagner, as I show here, by no means composed “free leading tones”,
that could no longer be explained according to the rules of music theory,
No, he found a complicated musical logic to symbolize the complicated paths of love, and just as love requires the utmost subtlety, the theoretical interpretation of the “Tristan” harmonies also requires the utmost subtlety.
the utmost subtlety.
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Whoever listens to my music experiences beauty.
Whoever listens to my music experiences structure
Whoever listens to my music experiences wisdom
Whoever hates beauty and does not want to listen and does not want to listen,
will judge without structure and without wisdom.
Proof: The only critic who was almost never wrong was
the genius Robert Schumann.
He was equal or superior to those he wrote about.
And when he wrote about someone greater, such as Beethoven,
he maintained a distanced respect.
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But Hanslick was wrong about Bruckner,
because the Bruckner symphonies are “tonally moving form”
Scheibe was wrong about Bach,
because Bach became “the pride of entire nations” in the 19th century
Anyone who is not more talented and industrious than I am
their judgment of my music is nonsense!
Because I write loving music, it is sounding love.
Any unloving judgment will therefore be a misjudgment.
I don't compose to be lectured by gossipers,
but to please listeners.
I mentioned Bach and Bruckner.
Bach and Bruckner are like two big brothers to me.
Bach's gentleness and Bruckner's contrasts were formative....
Their diligent respect for music is a role model
3 composers who worship Jesus Christ as God
Our birth years are each 139 years apart
1685 Bach
1824 Bruckner
1963 B.Ph.
All born on a Saturday, the feast day of God.
(Bach's birthday according to today's Gregorian calendar is
31.3.1685).
139 can also be understood as a proportion:
1:3:9
Bach was the tallest, 9 times as tall as me.
Bruckner was the middle one, 3 times as tall as me
I am the smallest.
Bach also had to endure the greatest suffering.
Bruckner was at least allowed to see success during his lifetime.
My lot is bearable.