Music as Self-Reassurance (Part 2) – Dr. Alfred Huber

Music and Resistance

Notes on the creative process of my symphony „Resistenza“ Part 1 of this article can be found here. Music and resistance. Compared to literature and painting, music has two significant disadvantages, which under certain conditions, however, turn into the advantage of immediacy. On the one hand, there is the temporal limitation of its effect. While one can read a book over and over again, the [...]

Music as Self-Reassurance (Part 1) – Dr. Alfred Huber

Music and Resistance

Notes on the creative process of my symphony „Resistenza“ Music as political expression Music and politics: the symphony „Resistenza“ arose from the need to respond musically to the political and social upheavals of our time. Russia's brutal attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, shattered the previously existing certainty of a stable community of Western values. This historical [...]