ESTONIAN SYMPHONIC MUSIC. THE FIRST CENTURY 1896-1996.
lacking interest towards the transcendental.3 Kapp expresses his multidimensional
weighty thoughts praying for the Lord’s mercy and direction in Job, emphasising the
equality of high art and religion (Art is religion4), defying the pettiness of the
environment, regarding seriousness and dignity as the first demands in art.5
An artist has ample opportunities for directing people towards the Divine or, in
the opposite case, towards bestiality. The question about responsibility is not a
compulsion but an echo of Higher Wisdom in our heart.
Treating the creative process from the spiritual, fine-material level it becomes
obvious that all ideas and thoughts have a fine-material basis, they are ‘things’, existing
1
Kalevi Aho. Muusika, rahvuslikkus ja ühiskond. (Music, nationality and society). Teater. Muusika. Kino
1994, No.4, pp18, 19.
2
Dom Jacques Hourlier. Vestlused gregoriuse laulu vaimsusest
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