01 July 2005

- Musikblätter des Anbruch -

Musikblätter des Anbruch was published by Universal Editions in Vienna until 1934 when, under a threat of an economic boycott from Germany and political pressure from NSDAP supporters in Austria, it was transferred to another press. It was ultimately closed down for good with the Anschuss.

You can get some idea of the cover design from the picture down in the "Credits" section of the sidebar.

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Here [in Fidelio] and nowhere else music becomes a rosy dawn, militant religious, the dawning of a new day so audible that it seems more than simply hope. It shines forth as the pure work of Man, as one which had not appeared in the world surrounding Beethoven, a world that existed irrespective of men. Thus music as a whole stands at the farther limits of humanity, but at those limits where humanity, with new langauge and haloed by the call to achieved intensity, to the attained world of "we," is first taking shape. And this ordering in our musical expression means a house, indeed a crystal, but one derived from our future freedom: a star, but one that will be a new Earth.

—Ernst Bloch
The Principle of Hope