Kathleen Schlesinger. Part IV. Rudolf Steiner's Musical Legacy

Kathleen Schlesinger
Part IV. Rudolf Steiner's Musical Legacy
by Chrispian Villeneuve

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This is the fourth in the series of booklets which contain a mixture of extracts from the writings of Kathleen Schlesinger, together with references to Rudolf Steiner's work on music. Also included are a selection of contemporary accounts of events.

Kathleen Schlesinger was a musician and musical journalist who rediscovered the ancient Greek modes and harmonics. She related them to the planets, with her friend and collaborator Elsie Hamilton assisting her, especially in musical performance.

This volume includes Kathleen Schlesinger's programme text The Modes of Ancient Greece from mid-December 1923, published here in its context, followed by notes of the lecture by Jan Stuten at the Christmas Foundation Meeting of 1923/24. Relevant passages are then set out from Rudolf Sateiner's autobiography and his lectures in early 1924. These lead on to his remarkable culminating expositions on the future of music given during the Torquay course in August 1924, which were especially directed towards Kathleen Schlesinger, Elsie Hamilton and Clifton Joseph Furness.

Review by Margaret Jonas for the Newsletter of the Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain, following the publication of the first 3 volumes of this series:
These [three] A4 booklets present the work of Kathleen Schlesinger, a musician and musical journalist who rediscovered the ancient Greek modes and harmonics and related them to the planets, with her friend and collaborator Elsie Hamilton assisting her, especially in musical performance. Kathleen Schlesinger discussed her findings with Steiner and also sent him a replica of a Greek cithara as she believed in performing on ancient instruments where possible, and that the cithara was used for more serious occasions as opposed to the popular lyre. She lectured at the 1923 Penmaenmawr conference. The booklets contain a mixture of extracts from her writings, Steiner’s works on music and contemporary accounts of events, and are well illustrated.

A Wynstones Press title.
64 pages.
29.7 x 21 cms, 11¾ x 8¼ inches.
Paperback.