The Concept of Creativity (and Its Importance for Musical Expression)

The concept of creativity; the importance of giftedness and inner motivation for creativity (Plato). The conditions for the emergence of creativity: openness to cultural experience and a need to pursue the meaningfulness of expression. Creative action is the return of experiences to the world (A. Šliogeris; Plato). Creative activity and creative attitude (E. Fromm). Creativity and self-expression; creative and possessive impulses (B. Russell). The importance for the artist of a rich inner life (S. Šalkauskis). Experience versus experiencing: experience is a semantic construct in which knowledge, abilities and so forth are accumulated in a whole which allows experiencing—that is, what is experienced here and now—to be realised. Aesthetic experiencing (M. C. Beardsley). The incomplete character of the work as a premise for a creative act (A. Maceina). The material as an obstacle (A. Maceina): the performer has to overcome not only the mental but also instrumental, opposition of the form. Freedom as the main condition for creative activity. The latent thinking of the artist as manifestation of the artist’s experience in their creative activity (S. Šalkauskis). The broader concept of freedom: to create one’s own life as an opportunity to project and transcend oneself (E. Mounier).