“Now: he was certainly subjective in making music insofar as every measure paced by him was mediated by his sensibility, developed to an extraordinary height. Yet never in him did SUBJECTIVITY put itself on display for its own sake. Instead, it was disciplined by the representation of the object. For him, it was a matter of reanimating the subjective moment in those texts in which it has insinuated itself, and not of making himself emerge to the listener, his fortuitous individual emotion”
[T.W. Adorno speaking of Furtwangler]
These words should provoke reflection on the function and value of performers.
