Ortega contra Ortegaun análisis crítico de su estética musical

Abstract

On 8th March of 1921 it was published in the spanish newspaper El sol the first part of what it was going to be one of the few musical writtings of the philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, by that time a well-known collaborator of that journal. We refer to «Incitaciones. Musicalia», where Ortega reflects on the reception of the «new music» (which he identifies with Debussy at first and later on with Stravinski) and proposes a change of paradigm in the way of judging the art that anticipates by three years to the postulates of La deshumanización del arte, his top work on the aesthetic matters. Along these lines we’ll get introduced in the historical and musical context in which the two parts of «Musicalia» where published, paying special attention to the reception of Debussy and Stravinski in Spain during the first quarter of the century and to the premier of Iberia in the Teatro Price and the rerun of Petrushka in the Teatro Real, wich motivated Ortega to write his articles. Finally, I’ll analyse in a critical way the aesthetical proposals of the philospher and I’ll confront them with all of the previously exposed.