El camino del medio o Béla Bartók en la visión existencialista de René Leibowitz

Following World War II, René Leibowitz, principal defender and promoter of dodecaphonism in France, became a prominent figure in the intellectual milieu, as music critic for literary reviews of the period. In October 1947 he published a polemic article entitled "Bela Bartók, or the possibility of Compromise in Contemporary Music," which appeared in Les Temps Modernes (review founded by Jean-Paul Sartre). The postulates of this text would have an unsuspected influence on the post-War generation of composers. Through a minute examination of the text, as well as other period sources, this paper proposes two principal objectives: to analyze the reception of the article by the French biographers of Bartók and to measure the impact of the ideas of Leibowitz on his students, notably Pierre Boulez. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]