DISCOURSE OF MUSIC AND INSCRIPTION OF THE SURNAME IN DAS-WOHLTEMPERIERTE-KLAVIER BY BACH,JOHANN,SEBASTIAN

The author tries to develop a comprehension of music based on a differ ence between the two systems of writing in music and language. Music o ffers no fixed connection between signifier and signification as they are brought about in language by sequences of letters. Therefore the n ame-of-the-father, whose recognition guarantees psychic stability, can not be introduced into the discourse of music. The >>Welltempered Pian o<< by Johann Sebastian Each shows how the composer reacts to this dil emma: in a biographical and music-historical difficult situation, Each , in a cryptographical way, interweaves his proper name with the score and thereby replaces the missing name-of-the-father.