BY FERRUCCIO BUSONI Translated from the German by Dr. TH. BAKER NEW YORK: G. SCHIRMER 1911 Copyright, 1907 By FERRUCCIO BUSONI Copyright, 1911 By G. SCHIRMER 22375 SKETCH OF A NEW ESTHETIC OF MUSIC Loosely joined together as regards literary form, the following notes are, in reality, the outcome of convictions long held and slowly matured. In them a problem of the first magnitude is formulated with apparent simplicity, without giving the key to its final solution; for the problem cannot be solve

Feeling —like honesty—is a moral point of honor, an attribute of whose possession no one will permit denial, which claims a place in life and art alike. But while, in life, a want of feeling may be forgiven to the possessor of a more brilliant attribute, such as bravery or impartial justice, in art feeling is held to be the highest moral qualification. In music, however, feeling requires two consorts, taste and style. Now, in life, one encounters real taste as seldom as deep and true feeling; as