Hidden Qualities
In the organic symphony forms conceived by Scherber live, rather hidden, new contents. Without wanting to go the inner way from 'Idea' or 'Emotion' and so on, to 'spiritual beinghood', the standarts are lacking. The musical moving force for the new qualities become the themes which centralize everything with their weaving metamorphoses and strict rhythms, as also the dissonances and harmonies.
For Scherber, the symphony in its universality matured through the centuries, was the historic resoundig of human striving to consciously partake in the processes of world creation. Consistently, Scherber's symphonies show a relationship with the works and intentions of the great pacemakers of symphonic tone. Could one not hear ever and again from composers, not only from Ludwig van Beethoven: "It belongs to the rhythm of spirit, to grasp music in its beinghood. It gives a presentiment, an inspiration of heavenly knowledge." And this has only sense in our day, when it can produce 'content' through experience.
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