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ole of the immediate production of sound from the aesthetic totality . ... Anyone<br />

fully able to grasp why Haydn doubles the violins with a flute in piano might well<br />

get an intuitive glimpse into why, thousands of years ago, men gave up eating<br />

uncooked grain and began to bake bread, or why they started to smooth and<br />

polish their tools. All trace of its own production should ideally disappear from<br />

the object of consumption. It should look as though it had never been made, so as<br />

not to reveal that the one who sells it did not in fact make it, bnt rather appropri­<br />

ated to himself the labor that went into it. <strong>The</strong> autonomy of art has its origin in<br />

the concealment of labor."" [XI3a]

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