Lot n° 21
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CHABANON (Michel Paul Guy de). Observations... - Lot 21 - Rossini
CHABANON (Michel Paul Guy de). Observations sur la musique, et principalement sur la métaphysique de l'art. Paris, Pissot, 1779. In-8, fawn half-basane, gilt fillets on spine (Binding of the period).
First edition.
Chabanon played an essential role in the aesthetics of music. He affirms the universality of music, concluding that it neither imitates nor seeks to imitate, and states this essential truth, which seems to prefigure Stravinsky's axiom: Sounds are not the expression of the thing, they are the thing itself (En français dans le texte, n°170).
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