Abstract:Anemari Neple: “The Art of Silence and the Silence of the Arts. Tor Ulven’s Webern Variations”In 1987, the Norwegian poet Tor Ulven (1953-1995) published a cycle of poems entitled “The Music Can Wait. Nineteen Webern Variations”, thus making a somewhat puzzling claim to the reader that the poems ought to be read as little pieces of instrumental music related to the Austrian composer Anton Webern (1883-1945). In this article, it is argued that this claim should be considered as something more than just a parado… Show more
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