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Vladimir Jankelevitchargues that composerFranz Liszt was a leading champion of musical modernity who knew how to express the new aesthetic change of directionin 19th-century European music better than anyone, save Frederic Chopin. This new style was the opposite of the abstract universality of the symphony and the totalitarianism of the Viennese conservatory. With the reinforcement of national and even provincial rights, the so-called savagery of rhapsody finally turned its back to solemn music, thus beginning the revolution of humility. Liszt gave voice to the land, much as Victor Hugo did for les miserables, and together with Mussorgsky, Bartok, andAlbeniz broke into new musical territory and began the era of improvisation.

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Vladimir Jankelevitch was a French philosopher and musicologist who was the chair of moral philosophy at the Sorbonne. He wrote more than 20 books on philosophy and music, some of which have been translated into Spanish, including Curso de filosofia moral and La musica y lo inefable.

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