ironico

Updated: May 29, 2025

But it is the third movement, the Allegro ironico, that opened your sluices and produced your genius. For in the conception of Mephisto you found in Goethe, you found your own spiritual equation. You, too, were victim of a disillusioned intellect that played havoc with all you found pure and lovely and poured its sulphuric mockery over all your aspiration.

Paul Rosenfeld - Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers