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Judith Crispin
poet, composer, musicologist

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PUBLISHED: Nov.27.2009

The Esoteric Musical Tradition of Ferruccio Busoni and Its Reinvigoration in the Music of Larry Sitsky: The Operas Doktor Faust

This study explores an elite esoteric tradition of music composition, transmitted to succeeding generations by practicing musicians with an avid interest in the occult. Motivated by a conception of music as an agent of transcendence, this tradition has been most clearly articulated by Ferruccio Busoni as Junge Klassizität, or Young Classicality. The core ideas of Busoni’s Junge...

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Dec.05.2009 - 7:19 am

In response to: Writing Before Dawn

Writing as protest

As a child, I never liked being told to go to bed. Mornings didn't exactly set me on fire either, but bedtime just...

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Poem: sehnsucht

About Judith

I am an Australian poet, composer and musicologist currently living in Berlin. My first musicological book was published in 2007 with The Edwin Mellen Press and I am currently working towards my second scholarly book and first chapbook of poems. I have also...

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Judith Crispinpoet, composer, musicologist

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Judith Crispin
poet, composer, musicologist