By which great philosophers except Nietzsche do we have music today?
Great, thanks! Adding “adorno” to my Google search of “music philosophers nietzsche” led me to this page:
http://pervegalit.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/philosophers-composers/
So now I have Rousseau as well! And maybe more, I haven’t read the comments yet.
Ferruccio Busoni
Well, he wasn’t a great philosopher but one could definitely say that he was still a philosopher.
When he wasn’t composing, teaching or performing at the piano, was writing about on philosophy. His desire to find elemental truths extended to the nature of music to principals of keyboard fingering and pedal techniques. He wrote essays such as “The Essence of Music” and “Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music.” Though Busoni didn’t incorporate some of the ideas explored in the later essay (like microtones and electronic instruments), he clearly predicted pathways of 20th-century music.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyvK8hI8URc[/youtube]
gutenberg.org/files/31799/31 … 1799-h.htm
Sounds like a philosopher to me.
and
Roger Scruton
are the only two I can find not so far mentioned.