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The Father of the
World-Creators in Music

The Free Musical Formative Will in Action

Like infinite waves, the sequences spring from the harmony and create their own universes.

In their motherly wombs the sequences carry the motifs which in turn, no sooner than they are born, create their own worlds – but like children, rather, and with an irresistible thirst for experience – and they plunge into the floods of the musical sound-space, like into the spaces of the cosmos, to change the course of the stars.

The Stars of Heaven in Music

These stars we perceive in the innumerable overtone-spectra of the tones, each overtone being a sun of its own.
The motifs make those suns rise and set, and create in that manner the vibrating, reverberating firmament of music, a glimpse of which the common concert guest gets sometimes.

The Secret Star-Rulers in Music

To the stars in the musical firmament, to the suns and moons of music which, revolving as if unconscious on their orbits, align with the motifs, to them the motifs as such bear great secrets.

They awaken the radiance of the stars, and this radiance looks back to them as the mirror-reflection of their own inner manifold brilliancy.

Cosmic Children’s Play in Music

So, the overwaves of the tones look towards the motifs, their actual basis. Focussing completely on the glorification of the motifs, they simply pour their light over them from all angles.
This gives the motifs the feeling of parentship, an experience which may be compared to the attitude which playing children have towards their dolls.

The Mothers of the Cosmic Star-Rulers in Music

By their innermost essence and by their innermost nature the motifs, in turn, concentrate completely on their own originators, the sequences, the prime mothers of music – which permeate their children with new life again and again.

To the motifs, the sequences are their natural home, their universe, their world which surrounds them, permeates them, and feeds them almightily; and the food the sequences give to the motifs is the harmony, that perfect musical world from where the sequences themselves are born.

The Absolute Life-Force in Music

By nourishing their motif-children, these prime mothers are also nourished almightily, and their calm and beautiful faces and the efflorescent nature, effervescent with joy, of their children, the motifs, is what we call the living beauty of music.
The power, which underlies this manifold beauty, we call the harmony, or the father of music.

The Great Personal Secret of the Music Listener

For the cognizing music listener this spontaneous discovery of his own inner, creative world is his most intimate secret, and for many a reason he will not divulge it to his neighbour.

Now he gains a clear inner knowledge of his personal potential, his genius – something his neighbour might call him, or might even dismiss him as – and this knowledge the creative music listener shares only with the creative gestalt of the musical poet who has exemplified this experience to him in his own life.